Marine Pilot Apprentice

NavClimate Day 2 - Presented by Don Cockrill, UK Maritime Pilots Association

Happy Holidays!
TRENZ wishes you a merry christmas and a happy new year!

The video was found on some social media channels in June 2020. When so many elementary mistakes are made and so many risks are taken, this is exactly what can happen! It's a demonstrative example of an unprofessional action: 1) Where is the life jacket? 2) No backpack on the shoulders. Use a rope to have the backpack lifted by the deck crew. 3) Where is the rest of the crew (on vessel / on the small boat) for safe assistance? What other mistakes have you discovered? We do not put videos...

A bridge team’s lack of effective monitoring of their position while at anchor led to a cargo ship hitting an anchored bulk carrier and striking a chemical dock on the Lower Mississippi River near New Orleans, according to a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) marine accident brief.

"Mariners may receive financial compensation for current and future medical expenses, rehabilitation costs, present and future lost wages, and pain and suffering."

ZIM inward to Kingston Jamaica with ECDIS

At the end of the year and before Christmas, we were able to find a variety of offers for pilots who would like to change in the coming year.

Australian technology provider Frontier Automation has released a new vessel tracking system that can be used as a docking aid tool by pilots. As for all Frontier Automation control systems, it uses 3D machine vision to automatically detect and track in real time shipping vessels within range of a berth by providing information on critical distances to mooring infrastructure, on vessel speed and angle, and on vessel movement directions and orientations.

Advertising film of the SWATH shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen on ships in SWATH design (2013)

The latest ORC 171 to leave the yard in June 2021