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Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control)
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Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2020). Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control). Available online at https://www.marineregions.org/. https://doi.org/10.14284/396
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Description
Polygon data representing the Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under regulation 13 of MARPOL Annex VI (NOx emission control). The outline coordinates were processed in June 2019. The coastline was extracted from the ESRI Countries 2014. Available ECAs: 1) North American area (regulation 13.6.1 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI); 2) United States Caribbean sea area (regulation 13.6.2 and appendix VII of MARPOL Annex VI)

Scope
Themes:
Boundaries, Environmental quality/pollution > Pollution levels & monitoring
Keywords:
Emission control, NOx, Ships, World Oceans

Geographical coverage
World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatordata provider

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Emission Control Areas (ECAs) designated under MARPOL Annex VI


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: GIS maps
Metadatarecord created: 2020-01-30
Information last updated: 2020-02-03
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