Bosphorus closed for ship traffic after bulkcarrier was disabled
On Feb 21, 2014, at 4.28 a.m. the "Orient Crusader", a South Cyprus flagged bulkr, 255 M im length and 114861 DWT in capacity, being enroute from Norfolk, where it had sailed on Jan 29, to the Ukrainian port Yuzhnyy with a crew of 21 and a cargo of 107,999 tons coal on board, suffered engine failure in the Strait of Istanbul (the Bosphorus).
The crew of the bulkercarrier immediately notified the Istanbul Vessel Traffic Centre which dispatched the tugs "Kurtarma 4", "Kurtarma 7" and "Kurtarma 9" as well as the lifeboat "Kıyı Emniyeti 1". Due to the navigational danger ship traffic was suspended timewise until the vessel was anchored at 9.12 a.m. The ship had on board 483 tons bunker fuel and 144 tons other fuel products.
The failure-suffered ship was built in 2010 which means she is comparatively a new vessel.
On Feb 21, 2014, at 4.28 a.m. the "Orient Crusader", a South Cyprus flagged bulkr, 255 M im length and 114861 DWT in capacity, being enroute from Norfolk, where it had sailed on Jan 29, to the Ukrainian port Yuzhnyy with a crew of 21 and a cargo of 107,999 tons coal on board, suffered engine failure in the Strait of Istanbul (the Bosphorus).
The crew of the bulkercarrier immediately notified the Istanbul Vessel Traffic Centre which dispatched the tugs "Kurtarma 4", "Kurtarma 7" and "Kurtarma 9" as well as the lifeboat "Kıyı Emniyeti 1". Due to the navigational danger ship traffic was suspended timewise until the vessel was anchored at 9.12 a.m. The ship had on board 483 tons bunker fuel and 144 tons other fuel products.
The failure-suffered ship was built in 2010 which means she is comparatively a new vessel.