Aubrey Price, Executive Director of C&C Technologies (South Africa), has been elected Chairman of the six-member International Federation of Hydrographic Societies (IFHS) in succession to William Heaps, Assistant Marine Advisor & Hydrographic Manager of Associated British Ports (ABP); also elected, as Vice-Chairman, is Holger Klindt, Chairman of The German Hydrographic Society (Deutsche Hydrographische Gesellschaft).
Mr Price, who is also President of The Hydrographic Society of South Africa, holds a Bsc in Earth Sciences from the University of Cape Town and has extensive experience in the domestic survey industry, having been formerly associated with Decca/Racal Survey, Trimble and Reson before assuming his present position with C&C Technologies (South Africa).
Comprising member organisations in Australasia, Benelux, Denmark, Germany, South Africa and the UK, the IHFS collectively represents the hydrographic interests of individual and corporate members drawn from over 70 countries while maintaining close working links with leading world survey authorities, including the inter-governmental International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) in Monaco. Its administrative headquarters are in Plymouth, UK.