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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Alex Lawson Energy correspondent

Oil tankers queue up off Turkey as price cap on Russian crude begins

An oil tanker passes through the Bosphorus to the Black Sea in Istanbul
Turkey’s Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits link Russia’s Black Sea ports with overseas markets. Photograph: Osman Örsal/Reuters

A traffic jam of oil tankers has grown off Turkey after the imposition of a price cap on Russian crude by western powers attempting to hurt the Kremlin’s coffers.

The vessels have come to a halt after Turkish authorities in Ankara demanded that insurers prove that the ships heading through its straits are fully insured.

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