Compliance with international emission regulations: Reducing the air pollution from merchant vessels

Marine Policy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 220-225

  Lin, Bin ^a   Lin, Cherng Yuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; IMO; Maritime country; MARPOL convention

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT; MERCHANT SHIP;

EID: 33644824064     PISSN: 0308597X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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