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Red to port on entering a channel.
Also known as: Red to port convention, IALA A system
The IALA buoyage convention used across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia, in which the port hand mark is red.
Places the red mark on the port hand of a channel entered from seaward across Europe, Africa, Asia and Australasia.
Contexts: Navigation
Is one of two incompatible conventions the IALA system deliberately retains, an attempt at a single world scheme having failed because the cost of re-marking either region's coasts was prohibitive.
Contexts: Navigation
A buoyage scheme rather than a single mark, identified by which colour appears on the left-hand side of a channel entered from seaward.