Turkey to increase fee for passage through Bosporus and Dardanelles five times
Turkey will five times increase the fee for passage through the Bosporus and Dardanelles in accordance with the rights granted to it by the Montreux Convention. RIA Novosti reports, citing Sabah newspaper.
The Montreux Convention was adopted in 1936. It preserves the freedom of passage through the straits for merchant ships in peacetime and wartime, but the regimes are different for everyone. The document limits the stay in the Black Sea of warships of non-Black Sea states for a period of three weeks. In emergency situations, Turkey has the right to prohibit or restrict the passage of the military through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles.
«From October 7, 2022, the fee for the lighthouse, evacuation and medical care in the passages through the straits will increase 5 times, and the revenue, which is currently $40 million, will grow to $200 million,» the newspaper reported.
