Pilot rope ladder - Deyuan Marine

Pilot boat at Velsen-Noord crew prepares to join cruise ship Norwegian Prima.

This is one common method to board the pilot. And here it is a special boat which is very fast with new technology

Drone footage from King's Lynn.

OHB subsidiary LuxSpace’s satellite for global ship monitoring has reached its target orbit.

The operators of Egypt's Suez Canal say technical or human error could have caused a huge container ship to run aground. Engineers are working round the clock to refloat the Ever Given. The vessel has been blocking one of the world's busiest shipping lanes for the last five days. The chairman of the canal authority hopes a dredging operation will free the ship in the next few days.

Spectacular (silent) film footage of the construction of the Panama Canal more than a century ago. The film shows the construction of the Miraflores and Gatun locks in detail as well as the digging of "The Culebra Cut" including steam trains, steam shovels and steam dredgers at work and scenes of the locks an the Canal in its first days op operation in 1914. Wikipedia: The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82 km (51 miles) waterway in Panama that connects the...

Look at Life Vol 01 Transport Pilot Aboard 1963
The story of Britain's pilotage services.