Number of oil tankers waiting at Bosphorus rises by five - Turkish agency

FILE PHOTO: Crude oil tanker Ottoman Sincerity is pictured in the northern anchorage as she waits for to cross Bosphorus Strait, in Istanbul, Turkey December 6, 2022. REUTERS/Yoruk Isik

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The number of oil tankers waiting in the Black Sea to cross Istanbul's Bosphorus strait on the way to the Mediterranean rose by five to 16 on Thursday, a shipping agency said, amid talks between Western and Turkish officials on steps to resolve the tanker queues there.

A British Treasury official has said those talks were happening after the G7 and European Union rolled out new restrictions on Dec. 5 aimed at Russian oil exports.