TIRANA, Sept 25 /ATA/ – Albania’s Navy Hydrographic Service marks the 63rd anniversary of its foundation on Friday.
Durres port Authority the Port Security Force cooperate with this Service since the launch of port and maritime operations.
For more than six decades, members of the Hydrographic Service of the Navy and the port personnel have worked together to install and maintain the mark buoys at the entrance channel to the port as well as the lighthouses.
This collaboration currently continues for the measurement of bathymetric depths near the terminals and in the port basin.
The Hydrographic Service was founded on September 25, 1957, as an indispensable part of the Navy for hydro-maritime safety in the country’s territorial waters.
The Hydrographic Service has performed a number of important military and economic hydrographic assignments such as the publication of military and civilian maps in cooperation with the Institute of Geography and Military Infrastructure, navigation security, etc.
The service’s mission is to provide services and products for navigation, hydrographic and oceanographic, monitor and maintain technical safety through floating lights within the Albanian territorial waters in accordance with internationally approved standards.
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