Chairman’s Report 04/07

June 13th, 2007 by JCB
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I am going to keep this report short as I have already taken up a half page (I hope) with another reminder about the incident reporting procedure.

The last quarter has seen section committee members attending meetings with DfT, MCA, DEFRA, IALA, Harbour Masters, the Transport Select Committee, the Shipping Minister – to name but a few. On several occasions we have also been assisted by pilots from outside the committee, and my thanks go to them.

There has also been movement with the Boarding & Landing Code for pilots. This has finally been agreed by UKMPA, BPA and UKMPG. Not bad considering that it was first started by Peter Russell back in 1991. Peter has kindly written the foreword. All pilots should give thanks to the enormous amount of time and effort given by the various people that have been involved. The Code will be officially launched at the PMSC SG meeting on 28 June.

Some of you may be aware that the MAIB Report on the Skagern / Samskip Courier collision on the Humber last year has now been published, and is available on their web site. It’s a bit late now, but I guess we could say “we told you so”.

Included in this edition is a letter from Avald Wymark. I hope, as presumably Avald does, that the letter will inspire some responses. Many of the issues have been discussed at section committee, and, in view of the wide circulation of the Pilot, there are some issues that I do not wish to comment on openly. Perhaps this could be an agenda item for the IDM in September, so please, do let us have your thoughts before then.

An early indication of attendance at the IDM would be appreciated – circular 03/07 refers.

Joe Wilson

Chairman.