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The Journal of the international Maritime Pilots´ Association

As part of a good Master-Pilot exchange (MPX) the passage plan and berthing plan is discussed with the bridge team.

IMPA has published examples of best practice together with a letter from Capt. Simon Pelletier, President of IMPA.

The operators of Egypt's Suez Canal say technical or human error could have caused a huge container ship to run aground. Engineers are working round the clock to refloat the Ever Given. The vessel has been blocking one of the world's busiest shipping lanes for the last five days. The chairman of the canal authority hopes a dredging operation will free the ship in the next few days.

P&O Sahm is the fifth pilot boat to be acquired by P&O Maritime Logistics from the same builder. It will be operated out of Port Rashid in Dubai.

returning to her St.Helier base

A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.

pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. Pilot boats were once sailing boats that had to be fast because the first pilot to reach the incoming ship 

To monitor the vessel’s progress, the pilot had set up his portable pilotage unit (PPU). He had connected the rate-of-turn generator to the vessel’s pilot plug and had set a variable range marker on the radar with a radius of 0.5 nm.