IALA is celebrating its 60th anniversary, while the IALA World-Wide Academy is only 5 years old. Does this mean that IALA did not care about training during all that time? It is not really the case. In fact, if the story of the creation of the IALA World-Wide Academy itself started in 2005, IALA had established the basis for the training of VTS personnel in 1998 with the adoption of the IALA Recommendation V-103, Standards for Training and Certification of VTS Personnel. It was a follow-up of the adoption by IMO of the 1995 Manilla Amendment to the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers (STCW-78), as well as the adoption of the IMO resolution A.857(20), Guidelines for Vessel Traffic Services, in 1997. This resolution, which contained an important part dedicated to the qualification, recruitment and training of VTS operators, was mainly drafted by IALA.
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