New date: 56th General Meeting EMPA

A handy and simple tool to determine in a minimum time what is really needed as tug assistance, is the Bollard Pull Calculator which calculates in an approximate way the total required tug power for ships in various conditions of wind and current. This tool can be loaded as an app on the smart phone.

This report on incidents involving vessels under pilotage, is an update on that issued in 2006. The IG’s first report examined five years of data between 1999 and 2004.

The St. Andrew’s Bay Pilots are deeply saddened to announce the passing of Captain Phillip Brady, age 46, on January 12, 2026.

Bellomo (Unione Piloti) on ShipMag.it: “Reunification impossibile”

The Sabine Pilots who help ships navigate their way up and down our waterways officially have a new place to call home.

Pilot ladder broke when pilot was boarding general cargo ship CREST CRANE at night Nov 5 at Keelung Port, Taiwan, to take the ship out.

Port Everglades Pilots 54’ Pilot Boat No7
With 2x Humphree H750 Interceptors w/Active Ride Control

Oct. 13, 2022
Harbor pilot departing the NCL Prima in rough seas.

APL Belgium in rough water near the Farallon Islands pilot station.

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