{"id":59719,"date":"2025-05-01T18:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/imo-new-air-pollution-limits-begin-may-1-for-ships-in-the-mediterranean\/59719\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T15:22:56","slug":"imo-new-air-pollution-limits-begin-may-1-for-ships-in-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/imo-new-air-pollution-limits-begin-may-1-for-ships-in-the-mediterranean\/59719\/","title":{"rendered":"IMO: New Air Pollution Limits Begin May 1 for Ships in the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>The Mediterranean Sea officially became an Emission Control Area for Sulphur Oxides and Particulate Matter (Med SOx ECA) under MARPOL Annex VI on May 1, 2025. The sulphur content in fuel oil for ships operating in the area is now limited to 0.1%, reducing air pollution and delivering benefits to both human health and the marine environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>marine link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mediterranean Sea officially became an Emission Control Area for Sulphur Oxides and Particulate Matter (Med SOx ECA) under MARPOL Annex VI on May 1, 2025. The sulphur content in fuel oil for ships operating in the area is now limited to 0.1%, reducing air pollution and delivering benefits to both human health and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[8438,832,6852,1271,2455,1241],"class_list":["post-59719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maritime-news","tag-air","tag-imo","tag-limits","tag-mediterranean","tag-pollution","tag-ships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/59720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}