Turkey has raised transit fees for ships passing through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits by approximately 15 percent. The country’s Transport and Infrastructure Ministry confirmed the information to Russian news agency RIA Novosti on Wednesday.
Under the new decision, the transit fee will be $6.70 per ton effective July 1. The previous rate of $5.83 per ton had been in effect since 2022. The increase was made as part of the ministry’s annual review.
This is the latest step in a series of transit fee increases on these two of the world’s busiest and most strategically important waterways.
From 1983 to 2022, the transit fee remained unchanged at just 80 cents per ton for nearly 40 years. In 2022, a policy change more than quintupled the fee to $4.80 per ton in a single increase.
According to preliminary estimates by Transport and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu, Turkey could earn approximately $254 million from ship traffic through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles between July 2025 and June 30, 2026 — roughly $31 million more than the previous fiscal year.
Navigation through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, which connect the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, is governed by the 1936 Montreux Convention. While the convention sets rules for commercial and military vessel transit, control over toll-setting and security management rests with Turkey.
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