Pilot boat Le Fret

out of Portsmouth

The Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) today presented the pilot transfer vessel Hamburg Pilot 3 in the Port of Hamburg.

Raw footage of a an offshore Pilot transfer.
More pictures and an occasional video can be found at
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Harbour pilots perform tricky operations boarding big cruise ships from fast pilot boats. Auckland and Malta.

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Watch the Maritime pilot disembark Ocean Liner, Queen Mary 2

Like many seafarers I have long been a keen follower of The Nautical Institute’s MARS programme, and along with many other members I listened to the recent webinar on that topic. One theme which was repeated more than once was that it is better to learn from someone else’s misfortune rather than have it happen to you. Having personally been involved in two near misses resulting from unsafe pilot transfer arrangements in a relatively short space of time, I asked how experiences and knowledge specifically about pilot ladder safety could best be promulgated to avoid repeating common accidents or near misses.

Future pilotage services in Greenland will become integrated directly into DanPilot in order to adapt to the current, challenging market conditions due to the coronavirus pandemic.