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- The latest issue: April 2010
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PILOT LADDERS: IMO NAV55
Technical & Training Committee Chairman Brian Wilson is representing the UKMPA for this IMO session where updating the existing pilot ladder requirements is on the agenda. There are currently three pieces of legislation covering pilot ladders, all slightly different and the aim is to amalgamate them into one. Read the rest of this entry »
ROCKNES UPDATE 2
Readers may recall that following the grounding and capsize of the MV Rocknes, near Bergen, in 2004, which tragically resulted in the deaths of 18 of the 29 on board, I wrote an article (October 2004 pages 8 &9) with an update in the July 2005 issue (page 10) which stated that the Norwegian Hydrographic Service (NHS) would not be prosecuted over failures to plot the rock, upon which the MV Rockness grounded, on the relevant chart. Read the rest of this entry »
Liverpool Pilots Retire. Another End of Era
Liverpool’s “Class of 1960”
May and June of this year saw the retirement of the last three serving pilots of the 1960 Liverpool intake of apprentices or “Boathands,” which was the legal, ‘Bye-Law’ term for trainee pilots. Read the rest of this entry »
121st UKMPA Conference Report
121ST UKMPA CONFERENCE REPORT
This year the conference was a one day event held on board the HQS Wellington and was attended by 39 pilots from 15 districts. Read the rest of this entry »
PILOTING VESSELS OVER AN AUTHORISATION LIMIT
PILOTING VESSELS OVER AN AUTHORISATION LIMIT.
Following the HA’s taking over responsibility for authorising pilots following the 1987 Pilotage Act, many districts retained the authorisation structure and wording from the Trinity House authorisations. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilotage Standards & The Government
PILOTAGE STANDARDS & THE GOVERNMENT
Pilots who follow the conference will be aware that since the beginning of the century there has been a set of National Occupational Standards (NOS) for pilotage training gathering dust on the shelves of a chameleon style port run body that has metamorphasised through various incarnations into Port Skills and Safety (PSS). Read the rest of this entry »
COSCO BUSAN: Pilot pleads guilty to criminal charges!
Although it occurred in the USA, the Cosco Busan allision with the Bay Bridge in San Francisco will inevitably have relevance to pilotage over here. There is also relevance to this quarter’s feature on piloting in fog. Read the rest of this entry »
Liverpool pilots accredited to run Maritime Resource Management (MRM) courses
In September 2008 Liverpool Pilots, through The Swedish Club, put two Pilots through the Maritime Resource Management training for Work Shop Leaders. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilots Awarded The Merchant Navy Medal
The MN Medal recipients with Admiral Lord West of Spithead. All photos: John Neligan
Further to last year’s Merchant Navy medal awards which saw retired Liverpool pilot Dave Devey receive the medal for “services to UK and European pilotage” (see pilot 292) December 4th last year saw two UKMPA serving pilots receive the award from Admiral Lord West of Spithead at St Michael Paternoster Royal Church, City of London. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting Britain’s Largest Gas Import
Britain’s largest gas import delivered to the Isle of Grain.
By Medway pilot John Gurton
John Gurton
The Al Khuwair arrived on the 17th November for commissioning of the phase 2 gas tanks at Isle of Grain with a delivery of 215,000m3 of LNG. Read the rest of this entry »
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