The ship struck on 3 August, known until now mainly by a flag, is the LDR Yasar of the operator Lider Gemi, towed into Samsun with major damage at several points and no casualties. “Our personnel fought until the last moment,” board member Aykan Ucuncu said in remarks carried by DenizHaber on Sunday. The Gulluk, hit in its accommodation block on 7 August with the crew unharmed, is making Istanbul under its own power to be docked for survey and repair.
The straits held their tempo. Ankara’s last on-record line, from two officials over the weekend, keeps commercial passage open under Montreux alongside unspecified temporary measures; no new hold and no new vessel strike surfaced in the maritime press read overnight. Ship-tracking data last placed the tanker Aegean Dream in the southwestern Black Sea on Monday, due at the CPC terminal on Thursday morning.