The Portius Port Law Series is a library of manuals, monographs, collections of papers and conference proceedings on the law of ports and harbours. The focus is on international law, European law and comparative law. The publications are aimed at an audience of port professionals, legal practitioners and academics.
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Video Pilot Boat crew transfer
published on 12 April 2022
Video How to build a safe Pilot Ladder. The production at PTR Holland
published on 20 December 2019
Video Characteristic Diagrams for ship behaviour under Wind Impact
published on 12 April 2021
Video View and track defects on vessels in the Saab Pilot Control program
published on 26 August 2020
Video The Halifax Explosion Inquiry Blamed One Pilot. Two Courts Disagreed
published on 1 September 2026
A French munitions ship and a Norwegian steamer collided in Halifax harbour in December 1917, and the blast that followed remains the largest human-made explosion before the atomic bomb. Within six days, a formal inquiry opened — and within two months it placed nearly all the blame on one harbour pilot. Wreck Commissioner Arthur Drysdale's inquiry found Mont-Blanc's pilot and captain responsible for the collision that triggered the disaster, and all three men involved, including a naval...