IALA Maritime Buoyage System (A and B)
Sistema de balizamiento marítimo IALA (A y B)
- Date
- 1976-1980 · confidence high
- Place
- Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Île-de-France, France
- Credited to
- International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
A single system of buoys and beacons, with lateral, cardinal, isolated-danger, safe-water and special marks. Region A puts red to port and Region B to starboard.
System A was agreed in 1976 and System B was added with the 1980 Tokyo agreement; today it applies almost worldwide.
What it led to
- uniform reading of marks by any mariner
- standardised charts and buoyage symbols
- replacement of over thirty national systems