Course details

Objective

To provide pariticipants with:

  • understanding of Port Marine Safety and Regulations, Maritime Security, Hydrographic functions & services, Pilotage & Tug services
  • an opportunity to enhance shiphandling knowledge through lectures, sharing & discussions with PSA pilots
  • an opportunity to enhance pilotage and shiphandling skills through simulation training.

Course Outline

Lectures: Port Regulations, Functions and Services. Port Safety and Security.

Pilotage & shiphandling :

Ship Behaviour

  • Different types of vessels and their handling characteristics
  • Effects of different types of propulsion and rudders
  • Understanding a vessel’s pivot point
  • Use of transit marks in shiphandling
  • Use of thrusters and different types of tugs in shiphandling
  • Anchoring and use of anchors under various conditions
  • Berthing & unberthing methodology
  • Speed management

Enviornemntal Effects:

  • Wind and current
  • Banks, channels and shallow water
  • Interaction
  • Pilotage Best Practices
  • Master-pilot relationship
  • Information exchange
  • Pilotage communication
  • Marine vocabulary

Shiphandling and pilotage under different environmental conditions:

  • Developing manoeuvring plans & execution
  • Situation awareness
  • Speed management
  • Transit marks and their applications in shiphandling
  • Mooring Line Management
  • Anchoring in congested anchorages
  • Berthing and unberthing in open berths, terminals and confined basins
  • Piloting in shipyards, towing, entering and leaving docks
  • Piloting different types and sizes of vessels
Updated on 08 November, 2015

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