Air pollution emissions from ships in the northern Baltic Sea

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Scope

What are the current air pollution emissions from ships in the northern Baltic Sea? Air pollutants include SO₂, NO_x, CO, hydrocarbons (HC) and particulate matter (PM).

Definition

Data

There is an excellent recent review of the topic for year 2000 emissions.

Causality

None identified.

Unit

Gg/a

Result

		Energy consumption [PJ/a]	SO2 [Gg/a]	CO [Gg/a]	HC [Gg/a]	NOx [Gg/a]	PM [Gg/a]
Fairways	Fairways total	58.7	35.6	5.7	2.8	107.2	2.8
	Eastern Gulf of Finland	6.8	5.1	0.7	0.3	12.8	0.3
	Western Gulf of Finland	22.1	13.5	2.1	1.1	40.3	1
	Archipelago Sea	21.5	10.4	2.1	1	37.6	1
	Bothnian Sea	5.6	4.4	0.5	0.3	11	0.3
	Bothnian Bay	2.6	2.1	0.2	0.1	5.2	0.1
	Inland waters	0.1	0.07	0.01	0	0.2	0.01
Ports in Finland		4.6	2.4	0.6	0.2	7.3	0.1
Work and fishing vessels		3.6	0.3	0.7	0.2	5.7	0.1
Recreational boats		2.6	0.08	24	8.4	1.3	0.4
Total		69.4	38.3	31	11.7	121.5	3.4