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Marine-Pilots.com celebrates its second birthday today

by Frank Diegel - published on 14 October 2021 - 71 -

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Our community is growing day by day and all of us at Marine-Pilots.com say "Thank you!" to everyone who supports us and makes our platform for pilots possible.

1,300,000 pageviews since our start in Oct 2019

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669 pilot organisations / companies worldwide

Today we have registered the number 669 of pilot organisations / companies worldwide. 126 countries are represented.

669 pilot organisations around the world (click for interactive map)

1,000 Articles and videos published the last year

There are also many individual and unique articles and videos from the community itself that can only be found at Marine-Pilots.com.

Our service: We collect and search for all content published about pilots worldwide and summarise the results here. This way you will not miss any news in the pilotage industry and you will always be informed.

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by Frank Diegel - published on 3 March 2021

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The European Maritime Pilot´s Association has released the new Newsletter issue 002/2021.

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published on 16 July 2025

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Video Australian Capital Territory Section Technical Meeting

published on 14 January 2022

Australian Capital Territory Section Technical Meeting
November 2021, online via Zoom