IALA is a non-profit, international technical association. Established in 1957, it gathers together Marine Aids to Navigation authorities, manufacturers, consultants, and, scientific and training institutes from all parts of the world and offers them the opportunity to exchange and compare their experiences and achievements.
IALA encourages its members to work together in a common effort to harmonise Marine Aids to Navigation worldwide and to ensure that the movements of vessels are safe, expeditious and cost-effective while protecting the environment.
Taking into account the needs of mariners, developments in technology and the requirements and constraints of aids to navigation authorities, a number of technical committees have been established bringing together experts from around the world.
The work of these committees is aimed at developing common best practices through the publication of IALA Standards, Guidelines and Recommendations, and Model courses.
We at IHMA are privileged to publish below a number of new IALA Guidelines and Recommendations issued in December 2020 some of which may have an application with members of IHMA.
These documents will be found here: https://www.iala-aism.org/product-category/publications/guidelines/ and here: https://www.iala-aism.org/product-category/publications/recommendations/
IALA Guidelines issued December 2020
G1135 DETERMINATION AND CALCULATION OF EFFECTIVE INTENSITY
G1143 – UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS FOR MARITIME RESOURCES
G1150 – ESTABLISHING, PLANNING AND IMPLEMENTING VTS
G1154 – MOBILE ATON
G1155 – THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DESCRIPTION OF A MARITIME SERVICE IN THE CONTEXT OF E-NAVIGATION
G1156 – RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION OF VTS PERSONNEL
G1157 WEB SERVICE BASED S-100 DATA EXCHANGE
G1158 – VDES R-MODE
IALA Recommendations issued December 2020
R0103 (V-103) TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION OF VTS PERSONNEL
R0119 – ESTABLISHMENT OF VTS
R1016 – MOBILE MARINE AID TO NAVIGATION (MATON)
R1020 – TERRESTRIAL RADIONAVIGATION SYSTEMS
R1021 – MARINE ATON AWARENESS FOR MARINERS
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Green financing concluded for six large container ships on order
- Syndicated loan of US$ 417 million and lease financing of US$ 472 million agreed
- Both transactions fulfil the Green Loan Principles of the Loan Market Association
- Compliance with relevant requirements certified by DNV GL
Hapag-Lloyd reported in recent weeks that it is breaking new ground in financing by concluding two debut transactions according to the Green Loan Principles of the Loan Market Association (LMA). This has also been verified by an independent expert in the form of a secondary party opinion of the DNV GL.
Both transactions are associated with the financing of six ultra-large 23,500 TEU container ships, which were ordered in December 2020.
The syndicated green loan in the amount of US$ 417 million has a 12-year maturity and will be used to finance three of the six container ships on order. The credit facility is being backed by the Korea Trade Insurance Corporation (K-SURE), and the syndicate consists of eleven banks. KfW IPEX-Bank and BNP Paribas were in charge of structuring and coordinating the transaction.
