Maiden voyage of HMM Algeciras #4-Ningbo-navigating

🚢 ALG PILOTS CALARENAS, Other Type 📡 MMSI: 225986414 🇪🇸 Flag: Spain 📅 Date: 29 August 2025 ⚓ Status: Went to Cernaval Shipyard to collect the pilot from LENE (IMO 1016575, Container Ship) after she was tugged in by VB ALGECIRAS, V.B. SIROCO, and VB SIMUN 🚢 Welcome to SHIPS at THE STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR — The World’s Maritime Crossroads, Captured Daily From mega tankers and RoRos to cargo ships, tugs, and military vessels, we film the pulse of the Strait — 24/7 — right from the shores of...

1st 24,000 TEU vessel, 1st Containers loaded, 1st Port call Qingdao

'HMM Algeciras' at its second Asian port destination; HPNT in Busan New Port Steadily filling up around Asian ports prior to her transit westbound towards N. Europe

This operation was carried out as part of a study of the capability of vessels of 142 meters length to enter and leave the seaport of Vyborg in the daylight.

Already nearly 25 years the authoritative guide on tug operations and IMO recommended. It addresses present and future developments and shows how training can be carried out and what should be trained,

Commander Roberto Bunicci, chief pilot of the Port of Ravenna's Pilots' Guild and already Vice President in office, is the new President of the Italian Federation of Port Pilots.

With approval from the Danish Emergency Management Agency, DanPilot and Danelec are now initiating a test program for remote pilotage – the first of its kind in the world.

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Here’s a nice little video of the sea trials of ‘Svitzer Oued Martil’ including some cool on-board 360 camera footage of her going through some pretty big breaking seas during rough weather testing, and some nice foggy day drone footage and trials alongside the Brittany Ferry ‘Armorique’.

The Atlantic Pilotage Authority has released its Annual Report 2020.
The Pilotage Act has defined the Atlantic Pilotage Authority’s area of operation as all the Canadian waters in and around the provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland and Labrador, as indicated on the map. Within this region, the Authority has designated 17 compulsory pilotage areas.