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Video Kittiwake Mersey Pilot
published on 22 December 2021
Video Pilot Transfer - New Zealand (Auckland) & Australia (Melbourne/Fremantle)
published on 21 October 2021
Video Look at Life - City of Sailors - Portsmouth - 1965, UK
published on 18 March 2021
Video Pilot Boat Docking Lake Erie
published on 20 June 2022
Article Kiel Pilots Operating on Emergency Basis
published on 3 June 2024
Video Simplified Vector Approach for POD forces – samples and limitations
published on 23 February 2022
Video Nakilat MEGI LNG carrier transits Panama Canal
published on 2 January 2021
Nakilat’s newbuild MEGI LNG carrier Global Energy loaded a full cargo of LNG and transited the Panama Canal for the first time in late-2020. Chartered by Cheniere Marketing International, the 173,400cbm vessel is commercially and technically managed by Nakilat. Built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), 'Global Energy' is the first of four LNG carrier newbuilds to be delivered to Global Shipping Co. Ltd., a joint venture of Nakilat and Maran Ventures Inc. (Maran Ventures).
Video Operation "Icebreaker" in Port of Quebec, Canada
published on 28 February 2020
Video Operation of POD Ships - Discussion on Efficiency comparing Conventional and IN-OUT POD strategy
published on 8 June 2022
In this movie the efficiency of two different pod operation strategies is compared: With azimuth propeller ships the Pods can be used in two ways to control the speed, e.g. for speed reduction: 1. by adjusting the engine orders, e.g. by reducing the RPMs to get lower speed - this means to drive the ship in the same conventional way as for twin screw vessels, 2. by turning both pods either in- or outward (TOE-IN or TOE-OUT) to reduce the forward thrust and therefore reducing the speed – the...