Casual Pilot Vessel Master A (Australia)

AMSA: A pilot was seriously injured after losing balance when a large wave impacted the vessel at the same time as they stood up to remove their lifejacket while in the cabin.

Puget Sound Pilots (PSP), the organization representing the elite mariners required by law to guide ships in and out of Puget Sound, has established a formal maternity policy. The historic June vote means that PSP is the first pilot association in the U.S. to implement a dedicated maternity plan for member pilots.

Baltic Workboats is delighted to announce that they have signed a contract with Laurentian Pilotage Authority for delivery of the PILOT 17 WP pilot boat.

Captain Kevin Vallance awarded the Merchant Navy Medal for services to Maritime Safety.

It does not happen very often that we have a Eurochannel bound ship to sea. In this case the MARIA P LEMOS, 333 m with a draft of 20,7 m left Rotterdam underway to the Far East .

The pilot boat will be christened Paga after the Paga Hill which overlooks the Fairfax Harbour where PNG Ports operates from in Port Moresby.

Editors note: There was a reason why this idea of a kind of ladder-elevator did not become accepted!

A new 1:25 cruise ship manned model, the "Voyager", was added to our fleet in 2014. She is 311 m long and is fitted with 2 azimuthing pods (and one Fixipod) and powerful bow thrusters. Training is conducted in emergency conditions like engine failures, crash stops, tight turns ...

Addressing the literature gap regarding comprehensive research on remote pilotage, this study aims to determine and prioritize the relevant criteria for these operations. By applying the Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) method to the SWOT criteria, the priority weightings

The International Users Group of ISPO-certified pilot organizations (IUG) congratulates Midwest Port Pilots on gaining its ISPO accreditation.