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Turkey builds new channel to relieve the Bosporus Strait

A new 28 nautical mile channel will help reduce the dense ship traffic through the Bosporus Strait, and the channel will be Turkey's most expensive construction project to date.
Photo: AP/Polfoto/Arkiv
Photo: AP/Polfoto/Arkiv
by OLE ANDERSEN

Turkey will later this year begin the work to establish a new channel aimed at reducing ship traffic in the Bosporus Strait, which links the Black Sea and the Mediterranean.

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