2019 Belgian MSP - Shipping and ports zones

The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 20 shipping and ports zones: Shipping regular regime (Art. 10§1), Northbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'Noordhinder Sud' (Art. 10§2.1°), Separation zone 'Noordhinder Sud' (Art. 10§2.1°), Precaution zone 'Near Thornton and Blighbank ' (Art. 10§2.10°), Northbound traffic flow starting at separation zone 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Separation zone 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Southbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'Off Noordhinder' (Art. 10§2.2°), Precaution zone 'Noordhinder Jonction' (Art. 10§2.3°), Eastbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Eastbound traffic flow starting at separation zone 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Precaution zone 'At West Hinder ' (Art. 10§2.4°), Separation zone 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Westbound traffic flow starting at separation line 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.4°), Area to be Avoided 'At West Hinder' (Art. 10§2.6°), Deep water route 'Westerschelde approach' (Art. 10§2.7°), Border line 1 of two-way shipping lane 'Westpit' (Art. 10§2.8°), Border line 2 of two-way shipping lane 'Westpit' (Art. 10§2.8°), Precaution zone 'At Gootebank' (Art. 10§2.9°), Anchoring zone 'Oostdyck' (Art. 10§3.1°), Anchoring zone 'Westhinder' (Art. 10§3.2°). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 9, nine zones with regards to shipping and ports: seven shipping zones (Shipping regular regime, Art. 9 § 1; Shipping route Northhinder South, Art. 9 § 2.1°; Shipping route Northhinder junction, Art. 9 § 2.2°; Shipping route Westhinder, Art. 9 § 2.3°; Shipping route Westhinder precautionary area, Art. 9 § 2.4°; Shipping route Westhinder area to be avoided, Art. 9 § 2.5°; Deep water shipping route Western Scheldt approach, Art. 9 § 2.6°) and two anchorage places (Anchorage place 'Oostdyck', Art. 9 § 4.1° and Anchorage place 'Westhinder', Art. 9 § 4.2°). These zones are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.

Date (Creation): 2021-11-18

Date (Revision): 2026-06-18

Date (Publication): 2026-10-13

Title: Digital Object Identifier

Date (Creation): 2016-05-19

Code: https://doi.org/10.24417/f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34

Citation identifier: http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34
Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details: This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) MSP 2014-2020 Shipping and ports zones. (2) MSP 2020-2026 Shipping and ports zones. (3) SWAP (n.d.). MarineAtlas website.MarineAtlas website. (4) Shipping and ports zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)	bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell	geocell@naturalsciences.be	Originator
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Owner
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)	info@naturalsciences.be	Publisher
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)	odnature@naturalsciences.be	Author

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Marine Spatial Plan
Reporting INSPIRE
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Federal government

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

European Legislation Identifier

Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)

Marine Regions

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

Land and natural area cover and use

Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium

Transport

INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope

National

High-value dataset categories

Earth observation and environment

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Other constraints: No conditions apply to access and use

Other constraints: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Other constraints: No limitations on public access.

Use limitation: No conditions apply to use.

Classification: Unclassified

Spatial representation type: Vector

Language: English

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Economy
Oceans
Planning cadastre

Extent type code: Yes

Title: Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ)

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Code: North Sea

gml32:beginPosition: 2014-01-01

Reference system identifier: http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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OGC:WFS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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OGC:WMS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp19/ows?version=1.3.0&service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp19:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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OGC:WFS	https://spatial.naturalsciences.be/geoserver/imsp19/ows?version=2.0.0&service=WFS&request=GetCapabilities	imsp19:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone

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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Custodian

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Transfer size: 0.008877

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://www.marineatlas.be	MarineAtlas website. SWAP

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.24417/f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34	Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

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Conformance result

Title: COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: Yes

Statement: Dataset is quality assured. Dataset corresponds to a digitized version of the information published in the Belgian official gazette ("Belgisch staatsblad/Moniteur belge"). Only the information published in the official gazette has legal validity.

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File identifier: f98d0d0f-cb75-4055-b8e4-d3c31cb96d34 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-10-13T15:43:35.686Z

Metadata standard name: Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version: ISO 19115:2003/19139

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)		bmdc@naturalsciences.be	Point of contact

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