The Marine Pilots' Community
Article Who is a Marine Pilot? Comment by Reshma Nilofer Naha
by Marine-Pilots.com - published on 16 September 2019
Video #Dangerousladders Trailer
The #DangerousLadders campaign is a global initiative to improve the safety of pilot transfer arrangements and in particular the safe rigging of pilot ladders. As part of this campaign, Fidra Films have developed a series of informational and educational films to illustrate the dangers and also best practice.
Generously funded by the sponsors below, all of whom have an interest in the safety of maritime pilots, the series aims to reduce the incidence of non-compliant ladder arrangements, something that pilots face every day of their working lives.
Anyone with an interest in the subject of pilot transfer safety should join the #DangerousLadders Facebook group, where there is continual discussion and educational advice from the global pilotage community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/83176...
The development, production and distribution of this series is generously sponsored by:
DNV GL
GasLog
InterTanko
Northern Marine
PTR Holland
The Standard Club
Stolt Tankers
With support from the pilots at ABP Southampton and a vessel location supplied by Tarmac.
Article The use of helmets... or “Why Do Pilots Not Wear Helmets?”
by Marine Pilot Luis Vale, Portugal - published on 20 August 2019
Article Safer shipping over ice
by Drift + Noise GmbH - published on 16 October 2019
Article Ship ahoy! Using AIS data
by LuxSpace Sàrl - published on 30 January 2019
Article Pilot Transfer Arrangements
by Captain Kevin Vallance MNI - published on 2 October 2019
Article The magnetic north pole migration - What a Pilot should know
by Leon Gerhards - published on 22 February 2019
The Arctic magnetic pole does not move anymore. It runs, faster and faster. In recent years, even faster than expected. Therefore, geo-researchers have now had an unscheduled change to their world model and adjust their calculations, so that navigation with compass and other navigation aids such as a Pilot Plug, used by pilots around the world, continue to work.
The Mission of Marine-Pilots.com

“Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.”
Henry Ford
By providing information and services, we want to support and constantly improve the work of Maritime Pilots.
Our passion: improving Marine Pilots' work.
List of all organisations and companies offering pilot services in the world. Sorted by country or selectable in an interactive map.
Currently we have researched approximately 600+ organisations in 118+ countries.
Arbitrary possibilities of links (Order a Pilot, Tariff information and more)
Directly to the Organisations and interactive map
Reach over 5,000 pilots and 550 Pilot Organisations/Companies in 110 countries around the world with your advertisement on Marine-Pilots.com!
If you want to sell or look for used pilot boats or communication and safety equipment, click here!
Our Buyer's Guide gives a market overview of all companies worldwide that offer their products and services for marine pilots in individual categories.
All job offers and requests for a maritime pilot career.
Search and find!
Share your job vacancies with our community.
Pilot organisations enter their job offers here and individual pilots can also submit their requests for a new job to the community.
What is the right job title for a pilot?
In English the term "pilot" can be misunderstood, because a "pilot" could also be the captain of an airplane. The terms "Marine Pilot" or "Maritime Pilot" describe more precisely that the pilot of a ship and not of an aircraft is meant. If we only write "pilot" on our page, then we always mean the pilot of a vessel.
In the future we will be able to publish a list of the professional titles "Pilot" here, which show the different spellings and designations for "Pilot" - also in different countries and languages.
Directly to Jobs
List of important events for marine pilots.
Later, the community itself can enter events.
Directly to Events section
- Accident
- Advertising
- Documentaries
- Equipment
- Ice piloting
- Laymens Stuff
- Pilot Organisations (Image)
- Pilot Transfer (Embarking / Disembarking)
- Piloting
- Presentations
- Safety & Security
- Special area or time-lapse video
- Training & Education
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Who we are

We want to bring pilots, suppliers and interested parties together, generate a large community and promote the exchange of information among each other.
The web platform will initially be financed exclusively by advertising and sponsors. The use of the site is free of charge. Marine-Pilots.com always wants to deal fairly and objectively with all suppliers for the effective and efficient work of pilots. Objectivity and transparency are important to us.
Target groups of Marine-Pilots.com:
• Marine Pilots
• Organizations, associations, companies offering pilotage services
• Suppliers of pilot equipment, information and services
• Laymen who are interested in the work of pilots
Operational range
We already reach more than 4,400 pilots and their approximately 500 companies and organisations in more than 120 countries around the world. More than 1,000 people (September 2019) have already subscribed to our newsletter.
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Partners for Marine-Pilots.com wanted!

We are looking for:
- Content partners who supply us with pilot-specific content or exchange such content with us
- Advertising partners who support us financially
- Ambassadors and Moderators for Marine-Pilots.com
- Pilots, who
- provide relevant information to the Marine Pilots community
- give us feedback and new ideas
- who would like to contribute to the vision of Marine-Pilots.com
On Our Own Behalf

The company TRENZ GmbH is the owner and operator of the web portal Marine-Pilots.com. We want to make the web portal transparent, fair, neutral and objective for all marine pilots and all companies and organisations. That is our requirement.
TRENZ also offers products such as TRENZ Pilot Plug and other services for pilots.
We will subject our products and services to the same rules and requirements as the offers of other manufacturers and providers.
We are in favour of fair competition and invite everyone - in particular also our presumed competitors - to participate in Marine-Pilots.com and to improve the work of the Marine Pilots.
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