Dardanelles
Live vessel traffic through the Dardanelles: how many ships are in the lane now, what kind they are, and a timelapse of the last few hours.
The Dardanelles is the southern half of the Turkish Straits, running from the Aegean past Gallipoli to the Sea of Marmara, where the Bosphorus carries on to the Black Sea. Every ship taking Black Sea grain or oil to the Mediterranean passes through both, so the two narrows work as one route and a wait at either is felt at the other. It is around four nautical miles across at its widest and under one at Çanakkale, where the shore guns of the 1915 campaign still stand.
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