Ports

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Ports

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Shipping

Description

Departure and arrival points of ships

MSP Challenge

The Ports location is used by the shipping simulation to calculate the shipping intensity in the sea region.

Ports put the following pressures on the ecosystem:

• Artificial Substrate
• Noise
• Surface Disturbance
• Protection against bottom trawl
• Protection against industrial trawl
• Protection against nets

Return to Shipping.

Types

Not applicable.

Metadata

Data Source

Rijkswaterstaat data drawn by hand to incorporate in a previous version of the MSP Challenge.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available

Creation Date

Not available. Previous than 2016.

Methodology

Reprojected the data layer to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).

Types

None

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Harbours (2017)

Original Title

Harbours

Description

This dataset contains the commercial Ports of Baltic Sea. The dataset was created in 2016 to be used in HELCOM Assessments.

Creation Date

2016-04-06

Methodology

Reduced attributes table to minimum needed.

Western Baltic Sea

The Ports layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.

Types

There are no ports types on the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Metadata

Data Source

Data provided by project partner (Marine Scotland)

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available. Data layer implemented on the MSP Challenge on 2017-12.

Methodology

Data implemented as provided.

Types

None

Metadata

Data Source

Provided by the project partner CNR-ISMAR based on data from EMODnet Human Activities data portal.

Original Title

Main Ports

Description

"The dataset on maritime transport includes goods, passengers and vessels traffic data in the EU main ports and was created in 2014 by Eurofish and Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is the result of the harmonization and aggregation on annual basis of the quarterly EUROSTAT Maritime transport data, provided by port in the EU Member States, Montenegro, Norway, Turkey and the UK." EMODnet Human Activities data portal, accessed on 2022-04-26.

Creation Date

Not available. Data provided on 2020-09.

Methodology

The layer was implemented in the MSP Challenge as provided by the project partner (CNR-ISMAR), assuming that the ports are all used by all vessel types.

Types

Not applicable

Metadata

Data Source

This dataset is a combination of several sources, namely Loyds (https://directories.lloydslist.com/) and Global Fishing Watch (https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/anchorages_pipeline/blob/master/pipe_anchorages/data/port_lists/WPI_ports.csv), provided by partners.

Original Title

Not available.

Description

Not available.

Creation Date

Not available. Data retrieved during 2022-09.

Methodology

The two datasets were merged, atributes were consolidated and duplicates removed (same location and same name). The geodata layer was reprojected to Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area (EPSG:3035).