Rodman 21, el modelo más compacto de la gama de embarcaciones de prácticos de Rodman.

Pilot Boat Marseille France port

Found on YouTube. Created by "ships, planes and gaming". Originally pubished on 2021-03-03.

Awesome drone video from Latvia

Maybe the best pilot boat video of the year. What a great scenery!

This video explores the question of why ships are so difficult to manoeuvre in reverse.

I have had the privilege of being at quite a number of meetings, conferences and seminars, sometimes representing The Netherlands, but mostly representing the Netherlands pilots. I have had many discussions about the role of pilots and pilot organisations, which lead me to write an article “What is the added value of pilotage?”, published in the February 2020 issue of Seaways.

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.

Korean Pilot boarding PCC Vessel in Mokpo, Korea

As we all know there is a new regulation established since July 2012, this new regulation refers to pilot transfer arrangements. There are other yearly safety campaigns such as IMPA that include SOLAS V.23 and IMO Resolution A 1045 and Resolution A.1108(29). Unfortunately, in this annual overview there were some accidents reported that could have been avoided.