Shipping traffic in <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2023/01/16/cargo-ship-from-ukraine-grounded-in-bosphorus-strait/" target="_blank">Turkey's Bosphorus Strait</a> partially resumed on Thursday morning after a brief suspension caused by the engine failure of a ship. Traffic had partially resumed in a northbound direction, the Tribeca shipping agency said. It comes after traffic in the Bosphorus Strait was suspended in both directions on Monday because of a salvage operation for another floundering ship, the agency said. In September, shipping was <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/09/01/grain-ship-from-ukraine-runs-aground-in-istanbul-halting-traffic/">halted in the strait</a> after a vessel carrying <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/europe/2022/09/01/grain-ship-from-ukraine-runs-aground-in-istanbul-halting-traffic/">3,000 tonnes of corn</a> from <a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/tags/ukraine/">Ukraine</a> ran aground. Millions of barrels of oil pass through the 19km-wide strait each day. About 700 million barrels of crude have flowed through the vital passageway in the past year. A key transport route connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the Bosphorus is also vital to the<a href="https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/11/17/grain-export-deal-extended-for-120-days-ukraine-minister/"> UN-brokered grain deal,</a> which assuaged fears of a global food shortage after its adoption in July. Ukraine is a major global grain producer and exporter, but production and exports have fallen since Russia invaded the country last February and started blockading its seaports.