In the third quarter of 2024, maritime traffic in the Strait of the Bosphorus was 10,381 ships, with an increase of +6.4% on the same period last year, of which 2,407 ships tanker (+3.3%) and 7,974 other types of naval units (+7.4%). Among the main types of vessels, bulk transit is 2,243 (+11.3%), those of general cargo ships 3,766 (+1.6%), transits of container ships 879 (-0.9%), chemical tankers 594 (+0.2%) and those of other tankers 1,683 (+4.3%), passenger ship transits 254 (+60.8%) and ro-ro ship transits 110 (-2,7%).

In the first nine months of this year, total transits were 31,161 ships, with an increase of +7.1% on the same period of 2023, including 11,665 general cargo ships (0%), 6,708 bulk carriers (+7.9%), 2,632 container carriers (+3.5%), 2,172 chemical tankers (+8.4%), 4,769 other tankers (+1.4%), 570 passenger ships (+166.4%), 422 ro-ro ships (+69.5%) and 328 ships livestock carriers (-9.4%).

In the third quarter of this year, the other Turkish strait of the Dardanelles recorded the transits of 11,718 ships, with an increase by +3.1% over the corresponding period of 2023, while in the first nine months of 2024 ship traffic was 34,646 units, up +3.1% over the January-September period of 2023.