Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov. 22
By Rufiz Hafizoglu - Trend:
According to the results of January-September 2018, a total of 1,590,643 Russian vessels have sailed through the territorial waters of Turkey, Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure told Trend on Nov. 22.
"During the reported period of 2018, 136,034 Russian vessels sailed flying the Turkish flag, 114,327 vessels flying the US flag and 1,340,282 vessels flying the flags of other countries," the ministry said.
In the first nine months of 2018, 248,945,205 vessels sailed in the territorial waters of Turkey, 27,391,146 of which sailed flying the Turkish flag, 10,465,714 flying their own flag, and 211,088,345 flying flags of other countries.
Last year, 46,461,060 Russian vessels sailed through the territorial waters of Turkey, 3,065,712 of which sailed flying the Turkish flag, 38,474,945 vessels flying flags of other countries, and 4,920,403 vessels flying the Russian flag.
In 2017, a total of 347,348,092 vessels sailed through the Turkish territorial waters, 36,815,820 of which sailed flying the Turkish flag, 14,812,063 flying the flag of their country, and 295,720,209 vessels sailed flying flags of other countries .
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