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4 сентября 2018
Oldendorff Carriers Fleet Increases By $716M Since Last SMM
With SMM this week, VesselsValue has put together an infographic looking at the best performing German owners since 2017 SMM. By comparing every German owners’ fleet value on the first day of SMM 2017 against today’s fleet value, we can see the German fleets which have grown the most in value and in a total number of owned vessels.
Oldendorff Carriers top the list by growing their fleet by 22 vessels and increasing their total value by 716 million USD. Today their total fleet comprises 109 vessels worth 2.6 billion USD.
In second place is MPC Containerships, adding 52 vessels to their owned fleet in 12 months. An impressive addition, considering during SMM 2017 MPC fleet owned 14 vessels worth 95.8 million USD. Today MPC Containerships own 66 vessels worth 631 million USD.
IALA Buoyage System For Mariners – Different Types Of Marks
The development of a uniform system of buoyage throughout the world was of paramount importance for safe navigation at sea. As traffic lights are used to guide drivers on road, similarly buoys and beacons are indispensable for guiding mariners at sea.
Imagine what would have happened if more than one buoyage system was in use around the world. Different buoyage system means different rules, in complete conflict with one another. It would cause confusion and lead to accidents.
With the aim of improving navigational safety to act as a barrier to dangers to shipping and to solve differences of opinions, efforts were made to establish a single set of rules by IALA – INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MARINE AIDS TO NAVIGATION AND LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES, which gave them a choice of using red to port or red to starboard, on a regional basis.
For the sake of maintaining uniformity in buoyage system worldwide, IALA divided the world into two regions – Region A and Region B.
Region A includes Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the Gulf and some Asian countries whereas Region B comprises of North, South, Central America, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.
IALA proposed a system allowing the use of lateral marks in each region, but whereas in region A, the colour red of the Lateral System is used to mark the port side of channels and the colour green for the starboard side. In region B, the colours are reversed. Regional variations do not pertain to cardinal, isolated danger markings, safe watermarks or special marks.
IALA buoyage system provides six types of marks:
• Lateral marks
• Cardinal marks
• Isolated danger Marks
• Safe Water Marks
• Special Marks
• Emergency Wreck Marking Buoy
