TURKEY - Aug. 28 - Ankara Permits Varyag Through The Straights.
The Maritime INTEREST, MARITIME. By maritime interest is understood the profit of money lent on bottomry or respondentia, which is allowed to be greater than simple interest because the capital of the lender is put in jeopardy. Affairs Minister says Ankara has agreed to allow the
hulk of the 300-metre vessel, the Varyag, which lacks a rudder rudder, mechanism for steering an airplane or a ship. In ships it is a flat-surfaced structure hinged to the stern and controlled by a helm. When the ship is on a straight course, the rudder is in line with the vessel; if the rudder is turned to one side or the other and an
engine, to be towed through the Bosporus. (The vessel was bought by
China from Ukraine. Tensions between Turkey and China have been stirred
by Ankara's repeated refusals to permit the vessel through the
straits Straits: see Dardanelles; Bosporus. . Authorities have worried that the carrier would block the
winding straits at Istanbul).
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