Pilot boarding the Auto Carrier Mediterranean Highway inbound to Halifax Harbour.
Editors note:
"The pilot's greatest enemy is often the pilot himself: Please do not carry a backpack together with your life jacket! The backpack can massively hinder the deployment and the effect of the lifejacket!"
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Harbor Pilot Nasir Khan from Pakistan has sent his own checklist to Marine-Pilots.com - we share this list for our readers and look forward to an interesting discussion.

Shipping Australia is delighted to welcome the Australasian Marine Pilots Institute as our newest corporate associate member

This video briefly describes the special operation of transfer of marine pilots at sea

Nautical Institute webinar, 13:00 – 14:30 UTC on Thursday 31st March, 2022.

Australian Capital Territory Section Technical Meeting
November 2021, online via Zoom

Interesting video by "JeffHK" from Hong Kong about the job of a maritime pilot.

This video shows how to use the TRENZ Pilot Plug with an iPad and the app Wärtsilä Pilot PRO.

On march 24th, 2022, the bulkcarrier BERGE BIMBERI entered Port of Rotterdam via the Eurochannel. The ship had a draft of 17,6 meters and two pilots were flown in by helicopter for this job. Assisted by Faiplay tugs and KRVE linesmen she eventually berthed at EECV bulk terminal in Europoort, Rotterdam.