MSM (Mediterráneo Señales Marítimas) 15th anniversary event IALA Industrial Member MSM has achieved major milestones over the past fifteen years and the company’s team will be celebrating this anniversary in a grand event full of surprises as they look back on years dedicated to innovation and development of marine aids to navigation. Founded in 2006 […]
France Courdouan Lighthouse On 24 July five sites in the Arab and Europe regions were inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List. One such was the Lighthouse of Cordouan at the mouth of the River Gironde on France’s Atlantic coast. Cordouan Lighthouse rises up on a shallow rocky plateau in a highly exposed and hostile environment. […]
It is with great sadness that we report the death of Christiane Ville, IALA Honorary Member, on 14 August at the age of 89. She was only 19 when she joined the French Lighthouse Service to support the preparatory work for the 1950 International Lighthouse Conference. Five years later she was actively involved in the […]
Dear IALA Industry Colleagues, We are proud to announce that SPX Corporation has recently acquired Sealite Pty Ltd and affiliated businesses Avlite Systems and Star2M. These businesses have now become a key operating business unit in the SPX Aids to Navigation platform, alongside Sabik Marine. Both Sabik and Sealite have a deep history of product […]
Australia’s Cape Byron Lighthouse stands as an iconic aid to navigation and is steeped in rich local, state and national history. As the 2021 IALA Heritage Lighthouse of the Year, Cape Byron is a special symbol of the outstanding heritage, architecture, social significance and conservation of lighthouses in Australia and around the world. Located on […]
The Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management together with IALA and the City of Rotterdam are hosting the 14th IALA Symposium between the 12 and 16 April 2021. Registration is still open on the dedicated Symposium web site. The theme for the Symposium is Enhanced Maritime Safety and Efficiency by Connectivity. The Symposium will […]
The World-Wide Academy (WWA) is organizing a series of technical webinars, open to all safety of navigation stakeholders, to address some of the challenges Marine Aids to Navigation (AtoN) service providers are facing. There was one on the provision of AtoN in French speaking Africa held in November and several to come in January and […]
In view of the unabated COVID-19 pandemic the Spring 2021 meetings of the Committees will be held virtually, building on the successful online working arrangements that were put in place during the second half of this year. Bookings are now open for the Spring 2021 virtual Committee sessions (https://www.iala.int/product-category/calendar/), which are scheduled as follows: ENAV27: […]
The COVID-19 pandemic triggered new ways of working and different ways of communication seem needed. As the headquarters is closed and it is known that meetings will not be physically possible for an extended period of time, IALA has thought it would be good to use a new communication tool for keeping the members and […]
The 71st session of the IALA Council took place by videoconference on the 3rd and 4th of June. All councilors were present. The Secretary-General reported that after the successful Diplomatic Conference in Kuala Lumpur at the end of February, alongside with what happened through the world, IALA had to shut down to limit the COVID-19 […]
The secretariat is getting ready for the new session of committee meetings starting from the 2nd of March 2020 with VTS48, followed by ARM11 hosted in Argentina on the 9th of March, then ENAV25 at IALA Headquarters on the 26th of March and finally ENG11 in Brazil on the 27th. For more information on committee […]
Only a few weeks remain before the start of the four-day Diplomatic Conference scheduled to be held from Tuesday 25th to Friday 28th February 2020 at the Hotel Grand Hyatt Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. National members, Government representatives and delegates from partner international organizations wishing to participate but who have yet to register are kindly requested […]
The Diplomatic Conference is scheduled to be held from 25 to 28 February 2020 at the Grand Hyatt in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Delegates are invited to register online: https://www.iala.int/product/diplomatic-conference/ and download the papers available from the meeting page: https://www.iala.int/meetings/diplomatic-conference/ The conference will be preceded by a seminar on the Safety of Navigation held on Monday […]
The IALA World-Wide Academy will hold a training seminar on the IALA Risk Management Toolbox – IWRAP Mk II; PAWSA; SIRA and simulation, from November 18 to 22, 2019 at the naval school of cadets Almirante Padilla, Cartagena, Colombia. The seminar will provide an international overview of risk management stressing the importance of stakeholder liaison […]
The IALA World Wide Academy offers a distance learning programme to achieve qualification as an international IALA Level 1.1 Marine Aids to Navigation Manager. The programme consists of two modules of online learning, activities, case studies and examinations in addition to a residential course at an Accredited Training Organisation at various international locations. If all […]
The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) is hosting a workshop on Ranging Mode (R-Mode) at IALA Headquarters, Saint-Germain-en-Laye from 9-12 September 2019. The working language will be English. The workshop is supported by the project R-Mode Baltic which is co-financed by the European Union through the European Regional Development […]
The IALA World-Wide Academy, will run a training seminar on the IALA Risk Management Toolbox – IWRAP Mk2; PAWSA and Simulation – from 20 – 24 May 2019 at IALA Headquarters in Saint Germain-en-Laye, France. The seminar will provide an international overview of risk management stressing the importance of stakeholder liaison before demonstrating the value […]
The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) is hosting a Seminar on updating IMO Resolution A.857(20), Guidelines for Vessel Traffic Services, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, 26-27 June 2019. Vessel Traffic Services (VTS) are recognised internationally as a navigational safety measure through the International Convention on the Safety of Life at Sea […]
IALA is on its way to Intergovernmental status The International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA), which has National members in 82 coastal States around the world, will call a Diplomatic Conference in early 2020 to adopt a new legal framework on its transition from an international non-governmental association to an […]
Registration is open for next month’s e-Navigation Underway International Conference – the ninth in the series – which once again will take place on board the Danish passenger ferry Pearl Seaways while sailing from Copenhagen to Oslo and back, from 6 to 8 February. Under the title of “Paving the Way for a Digital Maritime […]
