Journal of Shipping and Trade

Table 2 MARPOL Annex VI NO_x emission limits

From: Economic evaluation of alternative technologies to mitigate Sulphur emissions in maritime container transport from both the vessel owner and shipper perspective

		NOx limit,
Year	Tier	n < 130	130 ≤ n < 2000	n ≥ 2000
2000	Tier I	17 g/kWh	45 n ^-0.2 g/kWh	9.8 g/kWh
2011	Tier II	14.4 g/kWh	44 n ^-0.23 g/kWh	7.7 g/kWh
2016^a	Tier III	3.4 g/kWh	9 n ^-0.2 g/kWh	1.96 g/kWh

^aIn NOx emission control areas (Tier II standards apply outside ECA’s)
Source: Own composition based on (IMO 2011 and McGill et al. 2013)

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