Article Updated App: "Bollard Pull Calculation for Marine Pilots"
by Baykal YAYLALI - published on 17 June 2024
A handy and simple tool to determine in a minimum time what is really needed as tug assistance, is the Bollard Pull Calculator which calculates in an approximate way the total required tug power for ships in various conditions of wind and current. This tool can be loaded as an app on the smart phone.
Article New book: The Situational Awareness & The Port Pilotage Services
published on 8 February 2021
Article Study: Online survey among maritime pilots: job-related stress...
published on 2 September 2021
Video Maritime Pilot Training III - Man overboard manoeuvre
published on 12 May 2021
Article Pilot dispatching problem along a maritime corridor: a case study in the St. Lawrence River
published on 13 May 2025
This study presents a novel decision support process for a pilot dispatching problem in the St. Lawrence River. It integrates a comprehensive set of time-based performance measures, including working time, waiting time, and skill level differences, to optimize fairness and operational efficiency in pilot dispatching.
Video Ever Forward: Vessel stuck on Chesapeake Bay for a month
published on 14 April 2022
Video Departing Miami on Norwegian Sky & Pilot Boat
published on 28 February 2020
Article NZ Taic releases Report on 2018 Bulker grounding in Bluff Harbour
by Baird Maritime - published on 16 October 2021
Article Harwich Haven Authority applies for extension of pilotage area
by Marine-Pilots.com - published on 17 September 2020
Following a review Harwich Haven Authority (the Authority), in its role as a Competent Harbour Authority (CHA), has applied to the Department for Transport (the Department) to extend its existing area of voluntary pilotage to include the western most areas of Hamford Water and Oakley Creek in the area known as the Walton Backwaters.