Piloting a 190 meter Bulker with 2 tugs

A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting.

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Short video of the arrival of the bulk carrier BELO HORIZONTE. Shooting a shipping documentation and industrial photography for AO SHIPPING HaAMBURG in BARIA SERECE, PHU MY PORT in Vietnam. Activities and the unloading of Soya by cranes for a freight transport film. Director, dop/cameraman, drone operator, production: Peter Scheid. We thank the Baria Serece management in Phu My, Vietnam for their great support to realize this shooting. SHOWREEL INDUSTRY, VIETNAM FACTORY & MACHINES: REEL 1....

The National Transportation Safety Board issued Marine Accident Brief 21/21 Thursday for its investigation​ of the Jan. 14, 2020, fatal collision of the tanker Bow Fortune and commercial fishing vessel Pappy’s Pride near Galveston, Texas.

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I am not a computer savvy. My knowledge in programming and robotics and those sort of things is nil. I get lost in the sea of social media and easily entangle myself in the web. All I have done for the last 25 years or so is to pilot ships through the Panama Canal. However, during the last couple of years I have done my best to catch up with technology, since it has enhanced our possibilities and improved safety in our field. But still, I have to admit that I am way behind the new guys in this important issue.

The Supmar series of Camarc pilot boats building in Brazil. The expanding range now includes models at 12m, 13.5m and 16m with further size options in the pipeline.

This report on incidents involving vessels under pilotage, is an update on that issued in 2006. The IG’s first report examined five years of data between 1999 and 2004.