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The Brightlingsea Harbour Commission of Essex, UK, recently took delivery of a new pilot boat built by Seaward Boat Development Company based on the Isle of Wight.

Grounding container vessel Shahraz and MV Samudra Sakti in Singapore Strait May 10 2020
What happened?
MV "Shahraz" and MV "Samudra Sakti I" had run aground to the shallow Batu Berhanti in the Indonesian territorial waters within 6 minutes, which is surveyed with minimum water depths of 8.3 m in the northern part and up to 0.5 m in the southern part . It is located south of TSS Singapore Strait’s eastbound traffic lane.
A chain of events which must be described as extra ordinary rarity....

The vessel 8T gross tonnage above necessary inland and harbor pilot before inter the port of Japan.

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The Port of Cork company has ordered a new pilot vessel from boat builders, Safehaven Marine based in Youghal.

This video is about the people who work for South East Wales Pilotage, the Pilots and Cutter crew