Leonardo, a dry cargo ship that repeatedly transported ilmenite for the Titan plant in the annexed Crimea, crashed at the entrance to the Bosphorus. This is reported by the publication Black Sea News.
Leonardo broke in half at the entrance to the Bosphorus on the night of today, August 27.
The ship went in ballast (without cargo) from Rostov-on-Don to the Turkish port of Tuzla - after the August 8, 2017 delivered another cargo (3 thousand. Tons) of ilmenite ore from the Turkish port of Samsun to the port of Kamysh-Burun. At present, the aft part of the ship is on the Turkish coast. She was taken there by Turkish rescuers in tow.
A 42-year-old Soviet-built dry cargo ship (Sormovskiy type) was sold to Ukrrichflot by the Turkish owner in 2011,.