In the second quarter of this year in the Bosphorus Strait 10.088 ships are transited, with a significant increment of +21.6% on the corresponding period of 2022 when maritime traffic felt more acutely the effect of the consequences on Naval operations in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov of the war started on February 24 of the year by Russia with the invasion of the territory of Ukraine. The total number of ships transited in the period April-june of 2023 is also +3.4% higher than to that of the second trimester of 2021 and +6.3% compared to the Total for the second quarter of 2020, periods characterized by the impact on the economy and global mobility of the Covid-19 pandemic, and is also +1.8% higher compared to the second quarter of 2019 when the health emergency It hadn't begun.

In the second quarter of this year the most consistent Flow of maritime traffic was that of ships for General goods with 4,107 units transited, with variations percentages of +6.1%, -8.8%, -2.8% and -11.6% respectively on corresponding quarters of 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019. Following the bulk carrier with 2,091 units transited (+51.0%, +7.3%, +5.6% and +11.8%), tankers with 1,649 units (+22.6%, +23.8%, +25.0% and +13.1%), container ships with 939 ships transited (+66.2%, +34.7%, +47.4% and +38.5%), chemical tankers with 713 units (+13.4%, +20.0%, -0.7% and +25.3%) and ships for the transport of live livestock with 131 units (-9.7%, -22.0%, -12.1% and -12.7%). Among the other ships transited, ro-ro ships with 70 units (+2.9%, -9.1%, +37.3% and +7.7%) and passenger ships with 47 units (+2,250.0%, -14.5%, +235.7% and -42.0%).

In the first six months of 2023 the Bosphorus Strait is was crossed by a total of 19,338 ships, with an increase of +13.5% on the first half last year, increments of the +1.4% on the first half of 2021 and +0.6% on the first half of 2021 2020 and with a decrease of -2.6% on the first six months of 2019.