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Originally Posted by Wolfstriked
They couldn't agree even in 1973? I want red as port side outbound NO I want green as port side outbound!Ok we will divide half the world as region A and the other half as region B....does that work? Yeah that seems a great compromise. 
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It does work since then without many problems as Region A is basically (when entering port) the same as the position of the ships navigation light port=red, starboard green.
Not really much confusing.
Red right returning = Region B
Red right leaving = Region A
Prior to that solution Europe alone had 9 different bouyage systems.
NINE!! *facepalm*
It surely wasn't easy to get all the worlds nation to agree to these two regions.
But two regions are still better than the plethora of different systems which were used before that.
By the way Germany used the same system (introduced 1887) as the French which Mister M has posted before in this thread.
So if somebody wants to do a historically correct buoyage system for the French U-Boat bases he could make it that way.