An aframax tanker put on a US blacklist on 18 January for violating the Western price cap scheme on seaborne Russian oil caused a traffic halt in the Bosphorus for more than eight hours on Sunday.
Crossings were temporarily suspended in both directions in the waterway, Turkey’s directorate general of coastal safety, known as KEGM, announced on X at 12:01 local time (10:01 GMT).
