BBC Europe gets a Pilot change from Huron Maid - Dertroit MIchigan

Does the growth of ships ever have limits? Perhaps less in shipbuilding than in the handling of the ships during piloting.

PILOT HOLTENAU (MMSI: 211533730) is a Pilot Vessel and is sailing under the flag of Germany.
Her length overall (LOA) is 17 meters and her width is 6 meters.

Pilot Boat build by Abeking & Rasmussen, Germany.

Coast Guard air and surface rescue crews at Sector San Juan responded and assisted the distressed M/V Island Express Wednesday afternoon, after the ship started taking on water when it departed the Port of San Juan for storm avoidance in anticipation of Tropical Cyclone 9.

At the end of the disembarking procedure, the pilot jumps on ropes onto the pilot boat. Is this often seen practice safe? Can the pilot resolve the situation better?

Here’s a nice video of ‘Miami’ the Interceptor 48 pilot we built for the Biscayne Bay Pilots, Florida on sea trials, with Voyager helping out as the camera boat.

In the Inner Harbor, a tugboat captain is teaching Baltimore's inner-city youth about the maritime industry.

A pilot boat entering the port of Miami.

The vessel 8T gross tonnage above necessary inland and harbor pilot before inter the port of Japan.

The CMA CGM JACQUES SAADE joins the fleet: the first 23,000 TEU container vessel in the world to be powered by liquefied natural gas.