Maritime Directory

CONSTANTZA, Romania

ATLAS PILOT - the only romanian IMPA member, offers high quality maritime pilotage in the romanian Black Sea area

Albion, Queensland, Australia

Antwerpen, Belgium

New Zealand (Aotearoa)

Our objectives are: 1) To promote the professional and technical interests of New Zealand pilots and pilotage through investigation, information and representation. 2) To enhance and protect the status of pilots. 3) To enhance and protect the status of shipmasters wherever they may be associated with pilotage. 4) To promote and maintain proper standards of performance of pilotage and associated matters of navigation and management. 5) To reveiw, investigate and report from time to time upon existing pilotage services and upon alternative systems of pilotage service, administration and operation.

Turkey

Istanbul, Turkey

For centuries maritime shipping has been overwhelmingly the dominant form of transportation for global trade. In marine transportation vessels are always expected to complete their voyages safely and without delay. Safety concerns in narrow waterways and ports are accentuated by the continuing increase in marine traffic. The attendant growth in cargo volume has likewise increased the scale of the potential hazards to life, property and the environment that could result from just one catastrophic marine accident. Human error has been identified as the key causal factor in marine accidents with a ratio that varies from 75% to 96% and that is 85% in average. These are the facts that make pilots and pilotage services the most important elements of safety in narrow waterways and ports. Due to their training for a specific area and their experience gained during everyday operations, pilots bearing ocean-going master licenses can minimize human errors almost to zero level. A comparison of the accident statistics between two areas, one where pilotage is compulsory and one where it is optional, unequivocally supports this.