Winter Edition of the BPC Pilotage Quarterly published

Lately there has been a considerable increase in opinions of seagoing ship´s masters complaining about pilotage services, expressed whether as LinkedIn articles and comments or in some reputable industry magazines.

Rimane incagliata la nave porta container Msc Eliane all'uscita del porto di Gioia Tauro in Calabria. In azione 5 rimorchiatori per disincagliarla. COPYRIGHT (Contact licensing@localteam.it for usage/license info or visit https://www.localteam.it) Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/localteamtv Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/localteam.it Twitter: https://twitter.com/localteamtv Telegram: https://t.me/localteam Iscriviti su YouTube: https://bit.ly/2XaDrLZ #LocalTeam

A story I shot on the Delaware river pilots, very cool people who have a very important job. Every cargo ship that has to get anywhere up the Delaware River gets a pilot delivered to it while in the Delaware Bay, who guides it up through the narrow shoals

AIMPA organised a competition to author a Research paper on Pilot ladder - risk mitigation innovation and alternatives to Pilot Transfer arrangement.

Fathom Safety was established as a not for profit organisation dedicated to improving maritime pilot transfer safety. Here is a guide to pilot ladder rigging. We hope you like it!

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Capt. Nasir Khan is responsible for the content and copyright of this film and kindly provided us with this video.

„In God we trust“ - this short sentence can be found on the one dollar note.
Marine Pilots for example are experts in trusting. They simple have to be....

Shortly after 5 a.m. local time the vessel “Else” had a collision in the Kiel-Holtenau lock to the Kiel Canal.
The "Else" subject to pilotage passed the pilot's boarding position without taking a sea pilot on board and collided from the outside into the closed gate of the new north lock. The bow bored into the metal construction and the ship was stuck for about six hours.
For more information about this accident see related content below (articles).