The difference between Gross Tonnage and Net Tonnage

On April 20, 2026, the Columbia River Bar Pilots conducted a MOB drill with the U.S. Coast Guard Station Astoria.

Career RePORT encourages all students and educators to submit questions you want to ask a Port of Los Angeles employee: what kind of job they do at the Port, how they entered their career field, who their favorite superhero is, or what they made for dinner last night. This episode features John Mayer, Port Pilot. In his role, John: - Drives the 400-meter container ships containing goods in and out of the Port every day. - Safely navigates the cruise ships that are transitioning to and...

Before you, you see my third article on pilot boarding arrangements. After my two previous articles
(‘1000 ways to secure a pilot ladder’ and ‘1000 ladders around’, I have received a lot of feedback and
also questions to get deeper into the matter of combinations and embarkation platforms.

Another great education video by Knud Benedict (Germany): Practical experiments for getting useful data for planning.

In this video, you can take a look at what happened when the Napoli broke her back and was run aground on the south coast of the UK.

10 Jan 2023
New York Maneuver

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Official Video by MAERSK:" In the past two years we have made boarding safer for maritime pilots on more than 100 ships."