Turkey's transit crisis: how the Black Sea hits the Bosphorus

The photo shows shipping in the Bosphorus near Istanbul: container ships and tankers under Turkish flags, an aircraft in the sky, and mosques and the Bosphorus Bridge in the background. The infographic records a sharp drop in strait traffic from 200 to 25–30 vessels per day and a $20 billion economic loss for Turkey over three months. Beside it, a Turkish official gestures toward the scale of the transit crisis.