Russian ship wreck temporarily closes Bosphorus

Reported here:

The Bosphorus Strait was closed to vessel traffic as a Russian-flagged cargo ship crashed against a construction pontoon in the Turkish city of Istanbul late on Tuesday , Xinhua news agency reports.

Maritime officials were quoted as saying that ’Volgodon 213’, which tried to pass the north-south route in Istanbul Strait without a maritime pilot hit the pontoon Tuesday night.

Some chokepoints are easily closed.

Nice satellite photo, too.