Chemicals and Waste
Marine and Freshwater
Definition(s)
Ship-based pollution comprises: deliberate dumping of oil and other wastes from ships, accidental spills and offshore oil drilling, the discharge of oily engine wastes and bilge from day-to-day shipping operations (Source: UNEP)
Hierarchy
Broader: marine pollution
In other languages
French
pollution marine provenant des navires
Russian
загрязнение морской среды с судов
Spanish
contaminación marina causada por los buques
Chinese, Simplified
船舶海洋污染
Arabic
تلوث بحري ناتج من السفن
Explore content
Follow up the links below to see InforMEA content related to ship-based marine pollution coming up
from several external sources.
Multilateral environment agreements tagged with ship-based marine pollution
You can see below a list of multilateral environment agreements. Use the links on the right to
view the content tagged with
ship-based marine pollution. This includes official treaty texts, decisions, recommendations, and other related
informational documents such as publications, annuals, meetings, documents or reports.
 |
Basel Convention | 2 decisions5 documents |
 |
Barcelona Convention | 1 article or paragraph |
 |
Dumping Protocol | 6 articles and paragraphs |
 |
Prevention and Emergency Protocol | 1 article or paragraph |
 |
Abidjan Convention | 1 article or paragraph |
 |
Noumea Convention | 3 articles and paragraphs |
 |
Cartagena Convention | 2 articles and paragraphs |
 |
Jeddah Convention | 2 articles and paragraphs |
|
United Nations Environment Assembly | 1 decision |