From Dusk to Dawn - SOHAR Port

Container ship @ Port of Sohar

A maritime pilot tells us about why he loves switching ships in midstream.

“Gemide Kılavuzla Seyir | Kaptan ve Kılavuz Arasındaki Kritik İşbirliği (2025 Yönetmeliğiyle)” 📄 YouTube Video Açıklama Metni 🔵 Gemide kılavuz kaptanla seyir nedir? 🔵 Kılavuz kaptan gemiye nasıl çıkar, ne yapar? 🔵 2025 Gemi Adamları ve Kılavuz Kaptanlar Yönetmeliği ne getiriyor? Bu videoda, gemi kaptanı ile kılavuz kaptan arasındaki işbirliğini, liman manevralarının perde arkasını ve mevzuata dayalı zorunlulukları sade ve anlaşılır bir dille anlatıyoruz. Gerçek örneklerle desteklenen bu...

A collection of action from the St Johns Bar Pilot Association In the early 1800′s as the commercial ports along the St Johns River began to develop, a select group of brave and skilled seafarers would row to sea to meet arriving cargo sailing ships. These daring individuals would use their extensive local knowledge to safely guide the sailing ships across the treacherous sand bars that guarded the river entrance. This was the origin of the St. Johns Bar Pilots. Initially it was a bit of a...

Ships in Freeport of Riga

Kiel Pilots introducing Morild Interaktiv AS Virtual Reality Simulator for next-level manoeuvring training

This video shows an introduction on the Spiral-Test-Manoeuvre and describes the procedure how to steer through this manoeuvre and measure the data needed. The results will be displayed in a characteristic diagram allowing to identify stable and unstable conditions and related, detailed information, e.g. spiral loop width and height, rudder angle of neutral effect. Samples of stable and unstable ship behaviour demonstrations will be shown by Fast Time Simulation using the SAMMON Planning tool.

Meanwhile, female pilots are more and more common.

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....

AURIGA Group on Friday announced it had appointed the first female pilot in its business, as well as the first female leader of a reef pilotage business.