Türkiye has increased fees for the passage of ships through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles

Turkish authorities have again raised fees for the passage of ships through the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits by 15 percent. As RIA Novosti clarifies, the cost of transit through one of the key sea straits in the world has increased to $6.7 per ton.

Thus, the indicator sharply increased by the indicated amount for the second year in a row, and the increase itself was the third in four years, although before that the price had remained unchanged for 40 years.

From 1983 to 2022, the cost of transit was unchanged and remained at around $0.8 per ton. After that, Türkiye raised it five times, to $4.08. Then - in 2023 - by 8 percent, to $4.42, and in 2025 - to $5.83.

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu previously reported that according to preliminary estimates, the previous increase brought Ankara an increase in fees for the year by $31 million and $254 million.