After 20 years from the last edition of Genoa 2003, the annual meeting of the EMPA – European Maritime Pilot’s Association – returns to Italy in the exclusive and magical city of Rome. The theme of this edition will be “Pilotage – The Value of Human Capital”
Rome, Italy
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Video St Johns Bar Pilot Association
published on 17 January 2020
A collection of action from the St Johns Bar Pilot Association In the early 1800′s as the commercial ports along the St Johns River began to develop, a select group of brave and skilled seafarers would row to sea to meet arriving cargo sailing ships. These daring individuals would use their extensive local knowledge to safely guide the sailing ships across the treacherous sand bars that guarded the river entrance. This was the origin of the St. Johns Bar Pilots. Initially it was a bit of a...