New international rules to boost safety for maritime pilots have been agreed in draft at the International Maritime Organization. These include detailed requirements for the design, manufacture, construction, rigging, installation […]
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The Russian federal government will invest RUB2 billion (US$22 million) for the modernisation of local shipbuilder Onega Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant in Karelia. The upgrade works will entail the construction of new facilities and the replacement of some of the yard’s existing industrial...
Irish boatbuilder Safehaven Marine will soon commence sea trials of a new harbour launch ordered by compatriot operator Cork Pilots. The newbuild has been named Solas after the Irish word for “Light.” It will replace Cork Pilots’ first launch, Glean Mor, which has been in service for 19 years. The...
https://www.bairdmaritime.com/work-boat-world/pilotage/sea-trials-to-begin-for-new-irish-pilot-boat/
South Australian port operator Flinders Ports has expanded its fleet of harbour services vessels with the recent acquisition of a newbuild pilot boat constructed by Hart Marine in the neighbouring state of Victoria. Spirit is the first in a series of three pilot boats ordered by Flinders Ports from...
Western analysts risk overestimating China’s emergence as an Arctic power, spurred by fears that they initially neglected the reappearance of the Arctic as a theatre for strategic competition. Contrary to such alarmist views, Beijing is in fact far more constrained in the region, mainly because of...
The Australiam government’s Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP), on behalf of the Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA), has successfully prosecuted a ship’s master and a shipping company following a serious accident involving a ship’s pilot on May 25, 2023. On the said date, a pilot attempting to embark the Panama-flagged general cargo ship Boshi […]
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Best RIB Pilot Boat – Aldebaran – Naiad Design (Whiskey Project Group) New Zealand-based Naiad Design (part of the Whiskey Project Group) is renowned globally for its, usually, aluminium-hulled rigid inflatable boats that are used for patrol, rescue, assault, tourist and pilotage, among other...
Polish pilotage operator Gdansk Pilot has placed an order for a third boat in a series to be built by the same company. Construction of the 16-metre vessel will commence this year. Delivery is scheduled for the spring of 2025. Like its earlier sisters, the new boat will have self-righting ability,...
The Elliott Bay Design Group (EBDG) of Seattle, Washington, has entered into a strategic partnership with Anchorage, Alaska-based naval architecture and marine engineering firm Coastwise Corporation wherein the latter will become a new division under EBDG. Coastwise Corporation has been rebranded as Coastwise Engineering. This division will continue to provide superior naval architecture services to […]
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UK port operator Forth Ports has placed an order for two new pilot boats to join its fleet working on the Rivers Forth and Tay. The vessels will be built by Holyhead Marine Services in Wales and are scheduled for delivery in 2025. These will become the sixth and seventh boats to join Forth Ports’...