Turkey will significantly increase fee through straits

Turkey will count the prices for the passage through the Bosphorus and Dardanella straits. It is expected that they will be increased five times, writes Sabah.

“The payment system was abolished at the rate, which was assigned to a 75 percent discount in 1983,” the article said.

A resolution with new prices will begin to operate on October 7, 2022. Thanks to changes in the annual income of Turkey, it will increase by $ 200 million. Now the state earns $ 40 million per year.

The Turkish Republic will take advantage of its rights to manage the straits, which are assigned to the Montreo Convention on the Status of Pensions of 1936. According to her, the country’s shores located off the shores of the Black Sea must notify Ankara in advance in order to get the opportunity to spend their warships of any class through the straits through the straits. At the same time, significant restrictions on the class and tonnage were introduced for the warships of the Non -Chernoret powers.