A prestigious international accolade was celebrated at Australia’s Byron Bay’s Cape Byron Lighthouse on 12 April 2022, after the iconic tower was named the 2021 Heritage Lighthouse of the Year […]
Since 1981, Mawani represents the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in IALA as a national member, to ensure the implementation such specifications, recommendations and standards along with related updates, which would […]
Hibernating Aids to Navigation – A use case in navigationally seasonal waterways The US Coast Guard will install three lighted Physical AIS Aids to Navigation (AtoN) in Port Moller Alaska […]
1 July Public Re-opening The Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries announced that the National Lighthouse Museum will re-open to the public on 1 July following a four-year, […]
Liberia, as one of the world’s leading maritime nations in terms of the umber and tonnage of ships on the Liberian shipping register, says it will not remain on the […]
Recognising the need to enhance safety of navigation by improving the conspicuity of aids to navigation (AtoN) against strong background lighting, the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) in […]
One of my recent projects was the refurbishment and upgrade of Cape Wrath Lighthouse. This was an interesting project because it was not just about upgrading the optic, we were […]
History – beacon/lighthouses The aids to navigation history of Greenland is very young compared with the lighthouse history of Denmark. The Danish Lighthouse Service was established in 1560. Before the […]
Since the last e-Bulletin I was able to represent IALA at Singapore Maritime Week from 4 to 8 April. This was a splendid gathering at which many useful exchanges were […]
