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Occurrence Brief from the ATSB (Australia)

This document aims to provide information to pilot organisations and/or competent pilotage authorities on the conduct of pilot transfer operations.

IMPA has published examples of best practice together with a letter from Capt. Simon Pelletier, President of IMPA.

The Port of Klaipeda in Lithuania has placed an order for two pilot boats in a series to be built by Estonia-based Baltic Workboats. The contract for the vessels has an estimated value of €6.5 million (US$7 million).

Fosen Yard AS has built a semi-closed fish farm construction with a diameter of 160m and a depth of 20m.
The second half ring of this construction has left Emden on Friday.

Technology group Wärtsilä will supply its latest simulator technology for a new maritime training centre in Finland.

By 2001, the Houston Pilots led the way in hiring minorities and women, and a few years later it formed a nonprofit called Anchor Watch, to offer scholarships to maritime students in need and boost opportunities for minority and women candidates. Captain Holly Cooper joined the Houston Pilots in 1994 as the group’s 151st pilot and the first woman to begin training as a deputy.