Entering of a port

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Entering of a port

• Entering of a port with storms over 8 Bft
• Who in the end is responsible for admission
  decision when entering a port with storms of over
  8 Bft
• Discussion roles of captain, Harbour master and
  VTS
• Does a captain need backup and from whom towards
  his vessel management?

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Entering of a port

• Port
• Specialities by entering the road
• Meteorological conditions
• Local laws and decisions
• Pilots/pilotservices

• Length of the river
• Sheltered or unsheltered
• road for anchoring
• Windforces over Bft 8 or more
• Entering without pilot by
• reason of bad weather possible or not
• Pilotboats are working until force ? Helicopter
  possible or not ?
• Consultation via VHF or not

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Port Length of the river

• Port without a long river
• Marsaxlokk/Malta
• Singapore/Singapore
• Kao Hsiung/Taiwan
• Port with a long river
• Hamburg/Germany
• Bremen/Germany
• New York/USA
• Shanghai/China

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Specialities by entering the road

• Road sheltered by a island or cape of the
  mainland like
• Hongkong/China
• Suez/Ägypten except strong wind or storm
  from south
• Open road with good possibilities for anchoring
  like
• Rotterdam/Niederlande
• Port Said/Ägypten
• Open road with no good possibilities for
  anchoring like
• Marsaxlokk/Malta

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Meteorological conditions

• Windforces and state of sea without influence for
  working of the pilotservice
• High windforces and state of sea do not allow to
• bring the pilot alongside the vessel but the
  pilot can come on board with help of a
  helicopter.
• Very high windforces (Storm/Hurrican) and state
  of sea make it impossible to bring the pilot on
  board of the vessel port closed

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Local laws and decisions

• Entering with pilot-assistance possible only
• Entering without pilot due to the bad
  weatherconditions allowed until the next possible
  position of pilotservice, advice via VHF from VTS
  or pilotboat
• Due to bad weatherconditions no entering allowed
  (port is closed)

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Pilots and pilotservice/1

• With speedboat
• like Le Havre/France
• danish ports
• Southampton
• Singapore
• Hongkong
• With pilotboat from pilotcutter
• like Hamburg/Germany
• Rotterdam/Netherlands
• Buenes Aires/Argentina

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Pilots and pilotservice/2

• With large boat and relatively low speed like
  Port Said/Egypt
• Suez/Egypt
• with smaller boat and relatively low speed
• like Marsaxlokk/Malta
• Helicopter
• like Northsea-ports e.g. Hamburg/Rotterdam/Antw
  erpen/LeHavre