AMPI Conference 2023

Captain Kevin Vallance awarded the Merchant Navy Medal for services to Maritime Safety.

Cateamaran boat approaches for pilot boarding

Article by Seyed Behbood Issa-Zadeh & Claudia Lizette Garay-Rondero

A pilot boat entering the port of Miami.

Embarcación ligera apropiada para realizar trabajos auxiliares de puerto, con gran capacidad de maniobra, seguridad y velocidad.

This is one common method to board the pilot. And here it is a special boat which is very fast with new technology

Opinion article by BAIRD Maritime, Australia

Stanchions therefore are an often-overlooked part of a pilot transfer arrangement and therefore I
want to give them more attention in this article. They proved to be the cause of a whole series of accidents, some of which were even fatal.

Capt Ertan Ozgur, Various maneuvering and Pilotage, time-lapse records from Gemlik Bay