Nav Aids foundation welcomes new chair
The International Foundation for Aids to Navigation (IFAN) has appointed Guy Mason as chairman.
Mason joined the IFAN Board in March this year, having retired from BP at the end of 2020 as senior vice president and global head of shipping. He replaces outgoing chairman Alan Marsh, who steps down after three years in the post and will remain on the board.
He said there were a number of issues on his immediate list of priorities, including identifying ‘really great’ projects that IFAN can support financially that will make a difference to boosting standards of navigational safety at sea.
It will also support the valuable safe navigation service that IFAN subsidiary the Middle East Navigation Aids Service (MENAS) supplies to ship owners and operators in the Middle East Gulf.
“Alan Marsh has been an exemplary Chairman, so I look forward to following in his footsteps and continuing IFAN’s good work to make oceans safer while trying to hold ship owners accountable for the safety of their vessels and crews on board,” Mason said.
“The vast majority of ship owners and operators happily pay for this important service, where the income we receive pretty much closely matches the cost of maintaining the infrastructure both of the buoys and the DGPS system,” said CEO Peter Stanley.
