Pilot boat BAHAR 8

Fremantle Ports in Western Australia has awarded local boatbuilder Dongara Marine a contract for the construction of two new pilot boats.

M/V PILOT 68 (CHEOY LEE shipyards 17m Self-righting Pilot Boat)

New pilot vessel, the TRENT, has joined ABP Humber’s fleet at the port of Grimsby. An investment of £1.2 million, the TRENT is the second in class, Orc design 171, to be delivered to the Humber as part of ABP’s pilot boat replacement programme.

Port Phillip Sea Pilots now have their new website online. The result is impressive. Well done!

Ramsgate RNLI crews were called in to help a pilot boat beached at Broadstairs last night (December 7).

The average harbor pilot at the Port of Los Angeles makes $434,000 a year, but also faces a one in 20 chance of dying on the job, according to a book from The Wall Street Journal's Christopher Mims that was published in 2021.

A cargo ship lost power while approaching the dock at the Port of Tampa Thursday. Officials said quick thinking by harbor pilots and tug boats got it under control.