Maritime Pilotage at Tanger Med Port - APL Lion City, 398m

Ship receiving pilot at the pilot station and proceeding to jetty.

In this Time-lapse and Bodycam clip, the ULCS EVER GOVERN is underway to sea. There I am met by the Pilot Station Vessel PROCYON and transferred to the inbound MT STEN FJELL underway to Europoort again.

For "Der Spiegel", an experienced pilot and ex-captain analysed the accident of the freighter Ever Given, which blocked the Suez Canal for days, on the basis of documents. His conclusion: the captain and pilot made serious mistakes during the passage.

Maritime Pilot , Istanbul Strait , Turkish Straits , www.turkishpilots.org.tr

A good working relationship with the pilot, effective Master Pilot Information Exchange at the start of the pilotage followed by well performing Bridge Resource Management during the pilotage passage, are important factors in a successful pilotage.

Here's the full video of recent sea trials with our two pilot boats including storm Ciara, three boats together and some boarding runs. Its quite an interesting little video with some great footage.

We've reached the 640!
120 countries are represented.

Bellomo (Unione Piloti) on ShipMag.it: “Reunification impossibile”

The purpose of this quantitative, ex post facto study was to assess P-J fit theory by examining the relationship between personality traits, as measured by Jackson’s (1984) PRF-E, and selection for a maritime pilot job.

The All India Maritime Pilots' Association has released its new journal for October.