Winter Edition of the BPC Pilotage Quarterly published

Pilot Boat 68 heads out in choppy seas in the Dardanelles

Speaker: Capt David (Duke) Snider FNI, Martech Polar Consulting Ltd and NI Past President
Drawing on local expertise and a wealth of practical experience, the British Columbia Branch discusses the many and varied challenges of pilotage in a changing Arctic.

Eray Demirkol, one of the pilots of the Dardanelles Strait General Directorate of Coastal Safety, fell from the pilot ladder into the sea while he was boarding the 176-meter bulk carrier 28653 DWT named "Lord Nelson".

Pilot Boarding in a coaster ship 4K.

Podcast by "Ship Report"

Jet propulsion and an intergrated rescue system.
The boat is in a really good shape!

Shifting a vessel from one harbor to other. Easy and safe maneuver. Turn area D=150m. Mooring area 110m.

Svitzer, a leading global towage provider and part of Maersk, has today announced that it has signed a 10-year Time Charter Party with FGEN LNG Corporation (FGEN LNG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Gen Corporation (First Gen) for the provision of towage and other vessel support services required by FGEN LNG’s Interim Offshore LNG Terminal which will feature a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) that will be located at the First Gen Clean Energy Complex in Batangas City in the Philippines.

This episode of What's Going On With Shipping examines the videos showing the Brazilian training ship Cisne Branco striking a bridge in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

In fact, the pivot point that we “see” is a trick of the eye, it looks like the ship is rotating about this point but in fact it is elsewhere, a point that you cannot see.