Video Pilot boat by Baltic Workboats for Port Everglades Pilots - US Humphree Interceptor Installations
published on 31 August 2020
Video New York Harbor Pilot Boat 1 on the Kill van Kull
published on 25 October 2020
Video Methanol Fueled Pilot Boat from Sweden
published on 7 July 2022
FASTWATER Consortium and the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA) successfully demonstrated a pilot boat that has been converted to operate on Methanol fuel. The demonstration in Stockholm Harbour follows the successful bunkering of the vessel at the SMA pilot station in Oxelösund, Sweden, where the pilot boat will be based.
Video Christening of new pilot tender "Mira"
published on 7 April 2020
Christening of new pilot tender "Mira" - a lightweight powerhouse Press Release Hoek van Holland, 2 April 2020 by Next Generation Shipyards On Thursday 2 April, Annebel de Deugd (interim manager fleet management of Nederlands Loodswezen), christened the new Dutch pilots’ tender Mira; one of the lightest tenders in the Nederlands Loodswezen fleet. Lighter than ever The instructions given by Nederlands Loodswezen to ship designer Camarc and shipbuilder Next Generation Shipyards had been clear:...
Video Ship Entering Harbor
published on 11 January 2022
Article A ship like no other: CMA CGM Jacques Saade, 23,000 TEU, LNG powered
by Marine-Pilots.com - published on 23 September 2020
Article Gantry Crane Collision at Kaohsiung Port (Taiwan)
by Marine-Pilots.com - published on 3 June 2021
Video Kaarstoe, Norway: Berthing at Jetty 2 of Gassco-Terminal
published on 14 June 2021
Video Estonian Pilots - pilotage of a cruise ship
published on 2 June 2021
Opinion A Corrected Version on Positioning of Pivot Point
by Capt. Santosha K. Nayak - published on 18 November 2020
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.