Original title: "Watch how this Japanese pilot managed to get off the ship in bad weather condition"

Pilot Boat build by Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany.

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​A state licensed pilot from the Sabine Pilots took navigational control of the Gas Ares as it was heading to a loading dock on the Neches River.

Such a function is also the result of hard work and at the same time an expression of high respect: Captain Erik Dalege (born 1962) is now the president of the umbrella organisation of European Pilots, EMPA for short (European Maritime Pilots Organisation).