2026 Belgian MSP - Shipping and ports zones
The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing the marine spatial plan for the period 2026 to 2034 in the Belgian marine areas defines 20 shipping and ports zones: IMO shipping zones (Art. 14§2), Traffic separation schemes (Art. 14§2), IMO traffic separation scheme "Noordhinder South" (Art. 14§2.1°), IMO precautionary area "in the vicinity of Thornton and Blighbank" (Art. 14§2.10°), Other routes and traffic flows (Royal Decree) (Art. 14§2.11°-19°), IMO traffic separation scheme "Off Noordhinder" (Art. 14§2.2°), IMO precautionary area "Noordhinder Junction" (Art. 14§2.3°), IMO traffic separation scheme "At Westhinder" (Art. 14§2.4°), Separation line "At West Hinder" (Art. 14§2.4°), IMO precautionary area "At Westhinder" (Art. 14§2.5°), IMO area to be avoided "At Westhinder" (Art. 14§2.6°), IMO deep-water route "Approach to the Scheldt" (Art. 14§2.7°), IMO two-way route "Westpit" (Art. 14§2.8°), IMO precautionary area "At Gootebank" (Art. 14§2.9°), Anchorage area "Oostdyck" (Art. 14§3.1°), IMO anchorage area "At Westhinder" (Art. 14§3.2°), Maritime safety research zone: Zone 1 (Art. 14§5.1°), Maritime safety research zone: Zone 2 (Art. 14§5.2°), Maritime safety research zone: Zone 3 (Art. 14§5.3°). It replaces the 2020 Marine Spatial Plan. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belgeBelgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2026-06-08
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-06-18
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-06-25
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-19
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3129
- Identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
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bmdc.be:dataset:3129
- Date
- Other citation details
- This dataset is composed of the following sources: MSP 2026-2032 Shipping and ports zones.
Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Keywords
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- Marine Spatial Plan
- Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
- Federal government
- Reporting INSPIRE
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access.
- Use limitation
- No conditions apply to use.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Economy
- Oceans
- Planning cadastre
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- gml32:beginPosition
- 2026-03-20
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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application/xml
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Unknown
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application/xml
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Distributor
Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Name
- application/xml
- Version
- Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.247773
- OnLine resource
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imsp26:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone
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OGC:WMS
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A WMS service to view a map
Distributor
Custodian
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
https://www.bmdc.be
https://www.bmdc.be
- Name
- application/xml
- Version
- Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.122326
- OnLine resource
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imsp26:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone
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OGC:WFS
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A WFS service to download
- OnLine resource
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- 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.
- File identifier
- bmdc.be:dataset:3129 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-06-25T15:32:19.082Z
- Metadata standard name
- Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
Overviews
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Spatial extent
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