Shipping and ports zones

The Royal Decree of 20 March 2026 establishing a marine spatial plan defines Shipping Routes_IMO Art. 14. § 2, Shipping_IMO Zones Art. 14. § 2, Separation Systems Art. 14. § 2, Other Routes and Currents KB Art. 14. § 2, Other Routes and Currents Non-KB Art. 14. § 2, Separation Line At Westhinder Art. 14. § 2.4°, Area to Avoid Art. 14. § 2.6°, Anchorage Area Oostdyck Art. 14. § 3.1°, Anchorage Area At Westhinder Art. 14. § 3.2°, Maritime Safety Research Zones - zone 1 Art. 14. § 5.1°, Maritime Safety Research Zones - zone 2 Art. 14. § 5.2°, Maritime Safety Research Zones - zone 3 Art. 14. § 5.3° Please refer to the Belgian official gazette ("Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad") for official reference information.

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Date (Creation)
2026-06-08
Date (Revision)
2026-06-08
Date (Publication)
2026-06-08
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:3129
Identifier
http://metadata.naturalsciences.be / bmdc.be:dataset:3129

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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)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.naturalsciences.be
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Keywords
European Legislation Identifier
Marine Regions
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
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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
  • Economy
  • Oceans
  • Planning cadastre
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2026-03-20
Reference system identifier
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • application/xml ( Unknown )

Distributor

Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
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application/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.247773
OnLine resource
imsp26:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WMS )

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)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
Name
application/xml
Version
Unknown
Transfer size
0.122326
OnLine resource
imsp26:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( OGC:WFS )

A WFS service to download

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
OnLine resource
bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

2026 Management zones with regards to shipping and ports

OnLine resource
imsp26:bmsp_shipping_ports_zone ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

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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
2026-06-08T13:19:45.024Z
Metadata standard name
Geographic information -- Metadata
Metadata standard version
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

Belgian Federal Thesaurus
Land and natural area cover and use
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)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
economic planning environmental planning maritime navigation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
INSPIRE Registry: Spatial scope
National
Themes for open data catalogi in Belgium
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