With recently imposed security measures mandating large ships wait further outside a harbor or waterway, pilot boats in some cases must travel twice as far before the pilot transfer can take place, ...

Arguably there are no two names more closely related to Pilot Boat design and construction in the United States than Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding and Ray Hunt Designs. Together the dynamic duo has ...

Two new vessels are plying the waters of the Twin Ports, providing a critical service in a business that links the Northland to ports all around the world. The "Sea Eagle" and the "Sea Bear," a pair ...

A new pilot boat arrived in Bermuda after a 650 nautical mile journey from Newport, replacing the 42-year-old pilot boat St. George. A Government spokesperson said, “The Department of Marine and Ports ...

According to an economic impact study of Port Canaveral, $1.1 billion dollars in revenue is created each year by the activities in the port and that relates to more than 13,000 jobs. Would you believe ...

The Houston and Bayou City pilot boats, each about 70 feet long, spent their lives rubbing elbows with behemoths. They encountered rough waters and increasingly large ships. And each day, they were ...

A man who prosecutors say agreed to pilot a small, unseaworthy boat full of migrants illegally from France to Britain, leading to the vessel capsizing and killing at least four people, was convicted ...

A 12 percent increase in the rates Great Lakes pilots can charge foreign flag vessels means an additional three pilots for the Lakes Pilots Association in Port Huron. The U.S. Coast Guard-approved ...

It’s chilly and hard to see at 4 a.m. as Martin Maher throttles up his turbocharged work boat against the swells. He is set to rendezvous with a Chinese container ship three miles beyond the Port of ...