2008

Attached is a copy of the recommendations arising out of an investigation into contact made between the tanker Valermosa and two other tankers in Southampton in February 2009.

Date: 10/09/2008

Vessel type – Dry cargo General cargo Single deck

Recommendation:

Encourage your members to: “Develop and share guidance on the minimum levels of support pilots should expect from ships’ bridge teams. Promulgate the availability of locally produced large scale charts for their area of responsibility. Conduct surveys of all ships using pilotage services, similar to the survey conducted by ABP Humber, to identify vessels which are unable to provide the necessary support required by a pilot.”

The MAIB’s report can be found here

Note:

A copy of the survey document is provided “here”:

Date: 19/06/2008

Vessel type – Pleasure craft (non-commercial)

Recommendation:

Promulgate to your membership the MAIB’s advice on the need for Port Authorities to provide comprehensive local safety advice to the leisure craft users of their ports including, where appropriate, specific local information to enhance the safe navigation and operation of these craft.

The MAIB’s report can be found here

Date: 13/05/2008

Vessel types – Passenger Ro-Ro, vehicle/passenger ferry, lo-lo freight only

Recommendation:

Promulgate to Competent Harbour Authorities the importance of: “ensuring, so far as reasonably practicable, that candidates for PECs are bona fide masters or first mates of the vessels concerned (in accordance with the requirement of the Pilotage Act 1987). Carefully assessing a candidate’s ship handling ability before a PEC is issued or vessels of particular types and sizes are added to existing certificates”.

The MAIB’s report can be found here

Date: 10/01/2008

Vessel type – Tanker/combination carrier Oil tanker Crude oil

Recommendation:

Promulgate MAIB’s advice to your members, for them to engage with their respective Rescue Coordination Centres, with the aim of reviewing and validating the criteria for reporting to the Coastguard details of accidents and incidents occurring in or near their jurisdictions.

The MAIB’s report can be found here

Date: 02/01/2008

Vessel types – Dry cargo General cargo, Tanker/combination carrier Oil tanker

Recommendation:

Inform your members of the MAIB’s advice that they should consider how best to review how pilots can be helped to gain proper orientation of the traffic and navigational situation prior to boarding vessels to conduct acts of pilotage.

The MAIB’s report can be found here

Date: 06/03/2007

Vessel type – Dry cargo General cargo Multi-deck

Recommendation:

Highlight to Port Authorities the risks in using mobile telephones for passing operational information. They should emphasise the need for pilots to use mobile telephones only under controlled situations, and avoid the exchange of operational information which should more appropriately be transmitted by radio.

The MAIB’s report can be found here