compulsory pilotage

On the contrary, we want more compulsory pilotage.

The port is a compulsory pilotage area.

Where large tankers pass through and highly complex cargoes are being transported, compulsory pilotage would increase levels of maritime safety.

Large vessels have compulsory pilotage, with harbour pilots boarding at the pilot station off Chebucto Head.

There are no regulations for busy shipping lanes, such as the Bosphorus, where compulsory pilotage has not yet been introduced. Large tankers pass through these straits every day.

This means that the master & crew should adhere to the pilot's orders in respect of the safe navigation of the vessel when in a compulsory pilotage area.

The Great Lakes, with these exemptions of compulsory pilotage, is the only area in the world that allows merchant vessels of any flag to enter its waters without a pilot.

Only through compulsory pilotage, effective strengthening of the hull against ice, efficient traffic monitoring and good teamwork between the rescue services can we do anything for this port and this unique part of the world.

Still less have we been able to introduce anything into the directive about pilotage or the possibility of captains of coastal ships who regularly call at a particular port being granted exemption from compulsory pilotage.

As far as exemption from compulsory pilotage is concerned, let us hope that a common framework is set up, because such a framework would make competition between piloting services even fairer, while, at the same time, guaranteeing the quality of pilotage.