This week we look again at the global market for pilot boats. While many mariners wonder, in this age of precise electronic navigation and endless computer accessible information, why we need pilots, they are still around.
Local knowledge, it seems, is still important enough for ship owners to be prepared to pay for it.
While that situation prevails, marine pilots will still require safe, fast and economical boats or helicopters to enable them to embark and disembark from the ships that they guide. Obviously, helicopters are hardly economical, so pilot boats are still required in most circumstances.
As with most of the boats we present on Baird Maritime, pilot boats are continually improving. They are safer, more economical, more durable and more comfortable than ever. Our articles that will follow over the next week will fully describe that welcome trend.
– "The Moksong sailed the next day for Korea with a full load of sugar, and the captain seemed quite normal and never said a thing about the incident."
– Alex Lang
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