Black Sea now the ‘most dangerous commercial shipping environment in the world’
- Turkish seafarers’ union puts the July death toll at 23 mariners
- Russian containership and Turkish ro-ro vessel become the latest victims of escalating conflict
- Distinction between military and civilian activity ‘becoming dangerously blurred’
The Black Sea conflict has entered a more dangerous phase for commercial shipping, as escalating strikes on merchant vessels, tankers and port infrastructure drive seafarer casualties to their highest levels of the war
