Pilotage to Vitoria, Brazil

The Professional Association of Maritime and Inland Pilots (Beroepsvereniging van Loodsen – BvL) announced on Thursday that its strike over Belgium’s pension reform will continue throughout the weekend.

Footage from Iran

Long and irregular shifts, unforeseeable operations and high responsibility are still prominent in the job of a pilot and pose high psycho-physical demands.

Found on YouTube. Created by "FEDERAZIONE ITALIANA PILOTI DEI PORTI". Originally pubished on 2021-02-18.

OHB subsidiary LuxSpace’s satellite for global ship monitoring has reached its target orbit.

The IMPA has published on 30th June 2020 a letter about crew exchange in times of corona. Read the letter here:

Understanding the fundamentals of the pivot point is highly required for understanding the alteration of the courses. Pivot point is an imaginary point on the vessel which turns on a circular path on the perimeter of vessel’s turning circle when the vessel makes a turn. The knowledge about the position of the pivot point in a manoeuvring situation provides the ship handler with the information on the geometry of motion of the ship.

This video briefly describes the special operation of transfer of marine pilots at sea.

Online survey among maritime pilots in Germany: job-related stress and strain and the effects on their work ability.