KIEV, July 24 - A dry-cargo ship loaded with about 7,000 metric tons of ferrous metal scrap has run aground in Ukrainian territorial waters of the Kerch Strait, the Emergency Ministry reported on its website Tuesday.

The Panama-flagged vessel Queen-Hadji with Romanian crew on board was supposed to deliver the scrap metal to Egypt from the port of Berdiansk on the Sea of Azov, but had stranded three miles away from the Ukrainian seaport of Kerch, the ministry reported.