Article

Safehaven´s "Celso Madeira" for Portugal's Sines Port starts sea trials

published on 17 December 2021 - 111 -

Show comment section |

Safehaven Marine have launched ‘Celso Madeira’, an Interceptor 48 pilot for pilotage operations at the Port of Sines in Portugal. Powered by a pair of Volvo D13 500hp engines she has a 25kts operational speed and a capacity of 7 for pilots and crew. She is the 26th Interceptor 48 built and our 49th pilot boat supplied globally.

Once sea trials and commissioning has been completed over the next few weeks, she will be delivered in early January.

Safehaven Marine

Pilot Boats

What's your opinion on this?

Video Pilot Boat

published on 26 July 2021

A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.

Video Pilot Boat HOLTENAU, Travemünde 2019-12-15

published on 17 March 2021

PILOT HOLTENAU (MMSI: 211533730) is a Pilot Vessel and is sailing under the flag of Germany.
Her length overall (LOA) is 17 meters and her width is 6 meters.

Article PSA Marine awards contract to Lita Ocean for the construction of 2 pilot boats

published on 22 November 2022

PSA Marine has awarded a contract to Lita Ocean to build 2 units of a new-generation, heavy-duty and high-speed pilot launch.

Video Pilot Boarding in Valetta (Malta)

published on 14 April 2025

Video Pilot boat Lesath in rough sea brings pilot to Container ship

published on 28 September 2021

The pilot boat Lesath brings the harbor pilot to the Allegro. It was windy and the sea was rough, the conditions where not extremely, but the boarding is not whitout risk.
This video is created 2 days after storm Ciara in the Port of Rotterdam. This was also the first day that the containerterminals where open after the storm.
Shipspotting Rotterdam,
Enjoy

Video Pilot Talks...! Pilot ki Baat. Episode 19- Capt.Joseph Alapat

published on 23 November 2021

Pilot Talks...! Pilot ki Baat. Episode 19- Capt.Joseph Alapat Welcome to our next episode of:- Pilot Talks... Pilot ki Baat..! Hosted by Capt. Vijay Sharma, Master Mariner @capt.vijay along with Co-Host Capt.Gajanan Karanjikar, President of AIMPA, India @captgajanan We have the honor to invite our Special Guest. Capt.Joseph Alapat Deputy Conservator- Cochin Port, 15 yrs of Sailing Experience, 25 yrs of Pilotage Experience. Piloted Queen Elizabeth 2, Queen Mary 2, Queen Victoria and...

Video Baltic Workboats Steams into the U.S. Pilot Boat Market

published on 29 January 2026

Based in Estonia, Baltic Workboats is a long-tenured boatbuilder for multiple markets, including the demanding pilot boat sector. Late in 2025 in New Orleans BWB debuted a new hybrid electric 17m model, a boat that leans on more than 15 years of accrued experience building larger hybrid electric vessels. Carl Mahler, BWB’s North American sales lead and a harbor pilot himself, discussed with Maritime Reporter TV the value proposition offered by the shipyard, from manufacturing process to...

Video Reimagining Careers in the Public Service - Vernon Harrison

published on 23 July 2024

Video Parking my Ship / Mombasa Kenya / Berthing Process

published on 6 August 2021

In this video we are trying to show how a ship enters into Mombasa port through a canal and the procedure of berthing.

Article Pilots Corner – A perspective from New Zealand

by Chirp Maritime - published on 25 August 2020

The next step for NZMPA is to issue a set of regulator-endorsed guidance notes. The first version will focus on accommodation ladders used in conjunction with pilot ladders.