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ECDIS (Electronic Chart Display and Information System): Part1: How ECDIS works.
When I decided to produce an article on ECDIS I thought that it would simply involve reading a few articles, condensing the content and adding a few photographs. How wrong I was! Having started to delve into the mysteries of ECDIS I realised that this charting system, the carriage of which shortly will become mandatory, is a highly complex tool which, if it is to fully deliver the enhanced safety advertised, will require watchkeepers to forget many of the traditional chartwork skills and learn to use the electronic chart from scratch. Despite having waded through many papers and articles, even now I am not too sure that I fully understand all the elements that are combined to produce an authorised ECDIS.
A typical ECDIS console
CRIMINALISATION OF THE MARITIME PILOT
By: François Laffoucrière.
In previous issues I have covered the alarming trend of criminalising seafarers and pilots and despite the protestations from IMO General Secretary Efthimios Mitropoulos, criminal prosecutions for maritime accidents, especially those involving pollution are on the increase. The following is a a paper on the issues relevant to pilots presented to IMPA by French pilot and Maritime lawyer, François Laffoucrière. Read the rest of this entry »
PEC & TRIPPING PILOTS: PROCEDURAL ADVICE
What is the status of a pilot when a trainee pilot or PEC trainee is undertaking the pilotage of a vessel?
The view of the UKMPA is that the pilot must have the “conduct” of the ship, although the Master retains command. Read the rest of this entry »
UKMPA MEET WITH DfT
On the 18th January, following an invitation from the DfT, the UKMPA had two meetings with Civil Servants and others to discuss the draft Marine Navigation Bill (DMNB). Read the rest of this entry »
Technical & Training Committee Report October 2009
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IMO Nav 55: Pilot Transfer Arrangements.
Background
During Nav 45 in the summer of 1996 there was an attempt to remove pilot boarding arrangements from SOLAS V Regulation 17 and downgrade it to a code. Read the rest of this entry »
Pilotage Standards: “Unrealistic & Unworkable”!!
As reported in the July issue, the DfT and MCA have effectively handed full control of pilot training and standards to the port run body : Port Skills & Safety (PSS). Read the rest of this entry »
Legal opinion: Piloting oversize vessels
PILOTING VESSELS OVER AN AUTHORISATION LIMIT.
Following the HA’s taking over rrsponsibility for aothorising 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 »
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 »
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 »
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