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Denmark first to launch remote pilotage

Denmark first to launch remote pilotage

by Mariska Buitendijk | May 15, 2025 | Digitalisation, Maritime research, Navigation, News, Shipping

With approval from the Danish Emergency Management Agency, DanPilot and Danelec are now initiating a test programme for remote pilotage – the first of its kind in the world. The programme allows pilots to guide ships from land, using only advanced data transmitted...
Brabo orders foiling electric pilot boat

Brabo orders foiling electric pilot boat

by Mariska Buitendijk | Aug 26, 2024 | Emissions, Energy transition, News, Ports, Ship design, Ship propulsion, Shipbuilding

Brabo, a leading provider of pilot and port services in Antwerp, Belgium, has signed a deal with Artemis Technologies for an EF-12 Pilot boat. This foiling vessel is fully electric and will be delivered in late summer 2025. The boat, designed with input from pilotage...
Dutch Pilotage Service orders four new tenders at NGS

Dutch Pilotage Service orders four new tenders at NGS

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jan 19, 2023 | News, Ship design, Shipbuilding, Shipping

The Nederlands Loodswezen (Dutch Pilotage Service) has ordered our M-class jet-driven pilot tenders at Next Generation Shipyards (NGS). The vessels are to replace four 1996 Discovery-class tenders and will serve in the various pilotage regions of the country. The...
Not challenging the pilot leads to passenger vessel grounding

Not challenging the pilot leads to passenger vessel grounding

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jun 9, 2021 | Maritime accidents, Navigation, News, Shipping

Bridge resource management (BRM) still often appears to be but a theoretical concept in the maritime industry even after many decades of efforts to change the paradigm. The Nautical Institute says this in its latest Mars report where it discusses a passenger vessel...
Unclear pilotage root cause for ship collision in Scheldt area

Unclear pilotage root cause for ship collision in Scheldt area

by Mariska Buitendijk | Jan 22, 2021 | News

On 21 January 2018, the Dutch pilot vessel Pollux and the Panamanian bulk carrier Nord Taurus collided off the coast of Zeeland, the Netherlands. The Dutch Safety Board now concludes the cause of the accident was the confusion caused by the presence of two pilot...

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