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EMPA Report: Don Cockrill, John Pearn & Mike Morris
Don Cockrill, John Pearn, Mike Morris, Peter Lightfoot and Martin James from Section Committee attended the annual EMPA general meeting in Lisbon 15 -17 April 2015. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting the 3 Queens at Liverpool: James Smart (Liverpool Pilot)
I landed in Kirkwall, Orkney Islands on 23rd May 2015 to join Queen Elizabeth for the passage south to Liverpool. We were to take part in the ‘main event’ of Cunard’s ‘Three Queens’ meeting in the river Mersey to mark 175 years of Cunard.
My colleagues, Chris Booker for Queen Mary 2 and Simon Wood for Queen Victoria, had also travelled to Greenock and St Peter Port respectively in order to avoid any risk of not boarding safely at Liverpool Bar. We were to have navigation briefs onboard with all senior officers and two conference calls between the three ships and management ashore in Southampton, to iron out any last minute glitches and to discuss the weather likely on the day. Read the rest of this entry »
A view on Southampton Pilotage: George Livingstone
I’ve spent the last few mornings looking out over the San Francisco Bay wondering about the far flung, wide spread scope of marine transportation. I remember as a boy my father taking us to the harbour where we would sit and watch the ships come and go for hours on end. I suppose most readers of this magazine have a similar interest in the sea and the great ports of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Baltic Exchange Communications: Colm Nolan
2014 saw the 25th anniversary of the birth of the Internet. It is also the 138th anniversary of Alexander Graham Bell’s first telephone call in 1876. Such an event made me think it would be interesting to write about the history of communication within the Baltic exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
UK Safety of Navigation Report: Graham Langley
I represented the Association by attending the UKSON meeting on the 4 February 2015 at the MCA offices in Southampton. As the name suggests the purpose of the group is to bring together those from different areas of the UK maritime industry. At the meeting were delegates from the MCA, Chamber of Shipping, Trinity House (General Lighthouse Authority), ports bodies and others with a maritime interest. Read the rest of this entry »
UKMPA Members Visit Manchester ship Canal: JCB & Mike Morris
Maps reproduced courtesy of the MSC Centenary Souvenir Programme.
2014 saw the 120th anniversary of the opening of the Manchester Ship Canal and, with the UKMPA annual conference being held in Chester, the Manchester pilots arranged for delegates to take a trip from Eastham Lock to Runcorn on board two of Carmet’s canal tugs on the afternoon before the conference. Read the rest of this entry »
Can You Hack An Ecdis? : Yevgen Dyryavyy
Photo: JCB
In an increasingly connected world, cyber security is more important than ever. NCC Group, one of the world’s leading cyber security research companies, regularly investigates the susceptibility of non-traditional systems to attack in order to help raise awareness of the risks to these systems. Read the rest of this entry »
Westlaw UK Pilotage Law: Barrie Youde © 2014 Sweet & Maxwell Ltd
The Pilot is grateful for the kind permission by Sweet and Maxwell to reproduce the Westlaw UK Insight article on Pilotage, written by Barrie Youde. Barrie is a former Liverpool Pilot and now a solicitor with RA Wilkinson & Co.
In strict terms, pilotage and navigation are one and the same thing. Read the rest of this entry »
Large ship Visits
Last year saw the introduction of more Ultra large container vessels which now regularly call at UK major ports such as Felixstowe, Southampton and London. Read the rest of this entry »
Piloting the UK’s new Aircraft Carrier : Keith McLean
HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of UK’s two new aircraft carriers, was named by Her Majesty the Queen at Babcock’s Rosyth dockyard in Scotland on 4 July 2014, and manoeuvred out of the building dock to her fitting out berth on 17 July. She is the largest warship ever to be constructed in the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
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