NOTICE OF RECRUITMENT OF APPRENTICE PILOTS

For the second time in less than twelve months, the Australian Maritime Safety Authority has announced the successful legal action against a ship's master and the shipping company due to a defective ladder, leading to a pilot's injury during transfer

Learn from other accidents. Watch an accurate reenactment of a collision involving an undisclosed VLCC tanker.
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The March edition of The New Zealand Pilot has been published (link in article).

In the second of our series focusing on ‘Our people at ports’, we catch up with Pierre Chays, our Marine Safety Manager and Pilot who gives us a behind the scenes look at what our Harbours Team is doing during these difficult times in supporting the movement of essential freight services in and out of the Island. For him, it is very much ‘business as usual’ – and outside of his working hours he’s getting used to having another baby around the house.

This pilot vessel out of water for her first maintenance since launching. Full detail, antifouling and anodes

Container ship @ Port of Sohar

Exemplary manoeuvre: The pilot should always walk on the side of the pilot boat facing away from the vessel. This prevents the pilot from being trapped between the two vessels in the event of a fall into the water.

The All India Maritime Pilots' Association has released its new journal for October.

by Rhys Davies, current Apprentice. Published already in Feb. 2020 by ABP.

My first movement as harbor pilot, once my training was completed: Unberthing, moving astern to the turning area, then going back astern to another location of the same berth
Nothing special: A very simple video