IALA R&D Survey 4th April 2011

Member Organisation & Contact Do you have a Research & If yes, in what areas do you carry out Research & Would you be prepared Would you be prepared to Even if you don’t have an R&D Section
N- National Development Section in your in your organisation have you carried
A -Associate
Development? to share R&D share information with IALA
organisation? information with other on developments in ICT in out any recent developments or
produced any new innovations which
IALA Members? your organisation?
you would be prepared to share with
other IALA Members?
Australia Australian Maritime Safety No. AMSA works with its Not applicable Yes Yes Yes
(N) Authority maintenance service provider
(Australian Maritime Systems Ltd,
Graham Peachey an IALA Industrial Member) to
introduce innovations in order to
graham.peachey@amsa.gov.au improve the delivery of AtoN.
Australia Department of Transport No. DoTWA commissions work AMC and PATREC principally undertake research on wake/wash Yes. Yes Yes
Western Australia (DoTWA) through the Australian Maritime issues for DoTWA
College and a consortium of WA
Information provided by universities known as PATREC.
Graham Peachey
Australia Maritime Safety Queensland No. We conduct in-house AtoN Modified or enhanced structure design and efficient lighting Yes Yes Alternative AtoN Structure design
(A) servicing and encourage regional systems through the use of alternative materials and products that
Information provided by operations staff to be will extend the effectiveness and useful life of the installation and
Graham Peachey innovative/conscious of alternative improve servicing requirements for field maintenance staff.
products or materials.
Brazil Centro de Simulação Aquaviária Yes Port and naval engineering. In order to help IALA and its Council, Yes
(A) we can develop, for example, novel concepts of marine aids to
Diego Bonfim navigation, in order to evaluate how they will interact with the
navigator in all aspects of the safety of vessels.
diegotavares@fhm.org.br
Canada Canadian Coast Guard Yes Our current specific R&D Projects include the development of Yes, within the parameters Yes, where departmental policy
(N) an Ice Hazard Radar and Four Season Spar Buoys. of our collaboration permits.
Daniel Breton agreements

Daniel.Breton@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Cameroun Autorite Portuaire Nationale No Not applicable Yes Yes
(A)
Youmba Josue

apn@camnet.cm
Chile Armada de Chile, Directemar No Not Applicable Yes Maintenance planning
(N) Direccion General del Territorio
Maritimo y de Marina Mercante

Carolina Cabrera

ccabrera@directemar.cl
Croatia Plovput Split No Not applicable Yes Yes
(N)
Mate Perisic

sigurnostplovidbe@plovput.hr
Cyprus Cyprus Ports Authority No Not applicable Yes Yes No recent developments
(N)
Eftychia Christodoulou

Echristod@cpa.gov.cy
Denmark Danish Maritime Safety Yes The current areas are: Yes Yes
(N) Administration • Corporate Innovation
• e-Navigation
Ómar Frits Eriksson • Automatic Identification System
• Risk Assessment
ofe@frv.dk • Hydrography and Maritime Data
England & Trinity House Lighthouse TH,NLB & CIL have a jointly Lights and Radio Navigation including: e-Navigation, GNSS, Yes
Wales Service managed R&D programme, carried DGNSS, eLoran, radar aids to navigation, AIS, virtual AtoNs, light
(N) out by the Research & Radio measurement, light sources and light conspicuity.
Nick Ward Navigation Directorate, which is
hosted by Trinity House.
Nick.Ward@gla-rrnav.org
Finland Waterways Yes User needs, climate change, efficiency in fairway keeping, public Yes Yes
 IALA R&D Survey 4th April 2011

Member Organisation & Contact Do you have a Research & If yes, in what areas do you carry out Research & Would you be prepared Would you be prepared to Even if you don’t have an R&D Section
N- National Development Section in your in your organisation have you carried
A -Associate
Development? to share R&D share information with IALA
organisation? information with other on developments in ICT in out any recent developments or
produced any new innovations which
IALA Members? your organisation?
you would be prepared to share with
other IALA Members?
(N) Finnish Transport Agency “Professional Units” carry out R&D transportation, safety and Environment
On-going R&D projects: remote monitoring system, automatic
Keijo Kostiainen recognition of sector light colour boundaries, long life batteries,
AIS Baltic, port information, e-technology, intelligent traffic, ship
Keijo.Kostiainen@fta.fi reporting
-positioning systems
Germany Wasser- und Yes. Light and Vision, Technology of Visual AtoN, Radionavigation, VTS- Yes Yes
(N) Schifffahrtsdirektionen Nord The German Traffic Technologies Technology and others, which are not included in the "Maritime
und Nordwest Centre (GTTC) in Koblenz. Traffic Technology"

Hendrik Eusterbarkey

Hendrik.Eusterbarkey@wsv.bun
d.de
Germany German Aerospace Center, Yes Satellite Communications, Optical Free-space Communications, Yes
(A) Institute of Communications Aeronautical Communications, Terrestrial Communications and
and Navigation Services as well as Navigation – with respect to both systems and
application related aspects.
Evelin Engler

Evelin.Engler@dlr.de
Greece Hellenic Navy No Not applicable Non recently
(N) Lighthouse Service

Commodore Fanourios
Diamandopoulos

Yf_dieyu@hellenicnavy.gr
Ireland Commissioners of Irish Lights TH,NLB & CIL have a jointly See England - Trinity House Yes Yes Yes
(N) managed R&D programme, carried
Stuart Ruttle out by the Research & Radio
Navigation Directorate, which is
s.ruttle@cil.ie hosted by Trinity House.
Japan Maritime Traffic Department Yes. The Japan Coast Guard has Coast Guard Research Centre is responsible for the R&D of all AtoN Yes
(N) Japan Coast Guard two R&D Sections: areas such as optics, power supply from batteries to natural
energies, measurement technique of radio aids, mooring
VAdm. Satoru OSANAI components of buoy.
The Coast Guard Research Centre
as a laboratory.
kotsukikaku- The Navigational Safety System Development Office is responsible
i7gv@kaiho.mlit.go.jp for the research, development and coordination of entire
The Navigational Safety System
navigational safety system from shore to onboard especially e-
Development Office.
Navigation matters.
Kuwait Ministry of Communications No
(N) Transport Sector

Abdulla N Al-Wazzan

hydro-survey@hotmail.com
Latvia Maritime Administration of
(N) Latvia, Hydrographic Service,
Aigars Gailis 
No. A Scientific Council consisting Possibly, depending on
of 5 Doctors of Science is project
established to assist participation in
different projects.

Aigars.Gailis@lhd.lv
Malaysia KASI (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd Yes Port layout and berth design optimisation using simulation Yes Yes Not yet
(A) technique.
Moreen Liew

moreen@kasimalaysia.com
Netherlands Port of Rotterdam Yes Yes, through the IALA
 IALA R&D Survey 4th April 2011

Member Organisation & Contact Do you have a Research & If yes, in what areas do you carry out Research & Would you be prepared Would you be prepared to Even if you don’t have an R&D Section
N- National Development Section in your in your organisation have you carried
A -Associate
Development? to share R&D share information with IALA
organisation? information with other on developments in ICT in out any recent developments or
produced any new innovations which
IALA Members? your organisation?
you would be prepared to share with
other IALA Members?
(A) Committee, Symposia &
Raymond Seignette Conference Structure

RWP.Seignette@portofrotterda
m.com
Romania Directia Hidrografica Maritima No Yes No. Within the Romanian Navy Yes - Climatology
(N) there are other centers - Geography
Captain Adrian Filip specialized on developments in - Hydro-meteorological data
ICT monitoring
hidro@dhmfn.ro - Oceanographic database
development
Scotland Northern Lighthouse Board TH,NLB & CIL have a jointly See England – Trinity House Yes
(N) managed R&D programme, carried
Roger Lockwood out by the Research & Radio
Navigation Directorate, which is
RogerL@nlb.org.uk hosted by Trinity House.
Spain Puerto del Estado Yes. But specific initiatives on AtoN Mainly on Ocean-meteo matters. In relation to the AtoN scope: on Yes Yes In relation to the AtoN scope: on e-
(N) are managed by the AtoN e-ANSI/ATONIS systems and Quality Management Systems. ANSI/ATONIS systems and
Juan Francisco Rebollo department. Knowledge Database.

jfrebollo@puertos.es
Sweden Swedish Maritime No SMA has a central part in administration of Swedish research in the At SMA we already have Yes For the moment no special
(N) Administration maritime sector. Main focus is on the environment and maritime an open database with developments.
safety, but we have also an ongoing cooperation with Finland in research projects in
Captain Ove Eriksson winter navigation research. Sweden.
www.sjofartsverket.se/fors
kningsdb
Sweden Swedish Transport Agency No Not applicable Yes Yes No, but we will share upcoming
(N) developments if any via our work in
Pernilla Bergstedt the committees.

Pernilla.Bergstedt@transportsty
relsen.se
Ukraine State Hydrographic Service of No We collaborate with specialized institutions of Ukraine which Yes
(N) Ukraine conduct research, development and implementation of up-to-date
technology and equipment including the following spheres such as:
Sergiy Symonenko - aids to navigation (sea buoys and river luminous plastic buoy,
and also energy-saving light-optical equipment for them).
magas.s@hydro.gov.ua - Communication & Information Systems (system of monitoring
of navigational hydrographic situation).
United US Coast Guard Yes Currently, R&D supports port security, electronic aids to Yes - cleared/approved Yes - any cleared/approved open
States of navigation/AIS, spill response, law enforcement/drug open source information source information regarding AIS
America Mike Sollosi interdiction/alien migrant interdiction, major systems acquisitions, regarding Coast Guard applications with respect to the
(N) modelling and simulation, C4ISR, aquatic nuisance species, search R&D information. Coast Guard's own Nationwide
Mike.M.Sollosi@uscg.mil and rescue, alternative fuels/energy, and other Coast Guard AIS.
mission areas.