MV TQ Ordu

MV TQ Ordu is a Turkish-owned, Palau-flagged cargo ship that ran aground in 2023 while in the Black Sea.

The ship is a Supramax-size dry goods bulk carrier with a deadweight tonnage of 46,541.

Its keel was laid down on 25 June 1999, the ship was launched on 29 May 2000, and construction work finished on 22 July.

[2] On 5 February 2023, TQ Ordu was sailing along the northern coast of Turkey in the Black Sea, on its way from Ereğli to Istanbul.

While the ship was underway, severe winter weather developed with thirteen to nineteen foot wave swells and winds of up to thirty knots.