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Latest edition of Safe Passage is now available to download

published on 30 May 2022 - 150 -

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Australasian Marine Pilots Institute (AMPI) latest of edition of Safe Passage including articles from Nic G. "Passenger Ship Redundancy", Karolina Cirjak "Pilots are not advisors to the Masters", Clive Sheard "Digitising Pilotage Peer Learning", Arie Palmers "A 1000 Navy Vessels Around", Matthew Conyers "Meanwhile in Brisbane", Robert Tanner Wollongong Conference.

Download the latest edition of "Safe Passage" Autumn/Winter 2022 edition here

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published on 8 April 2020

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