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A Race to the Bottom? Cruise Lines Seek Reduction of Harbor Pilot’s Compensation

By Jim Walker on May 18, 2017
Posted in Flags of Convenience

Biscayne Bay PlotsThe safe operation of a cruise ship to and from the port of Miami depends in large part on someone who few cruise passengers will ever meet – a pilot from the Biscayne Bay Pilots.

Cruise ships, tankers and cargo ships are all piloted in and out of the narrow channel of Miami’s Government Cut…

HAL’s Veendam Rescues Pilot in Pacific Ocean

By Jim Walker on January 26, 2015
Posted in Rescue, Weird Cruise News

A Holland America Line cruise ship came to the rescue, reports KCRA, after a pilot in a small, single-engine airplane on a 2,400 mile trip to Maui, Hawaii ran out of gas fuel over the Pacific Ocean and was forced to ditch his plane. 

The news station says that the plane ran out of fuel…

Independence of the Seas Arrested in Norway

By Jim Walker on May 22, 2014
Posted in Worst Cruise Line in the World

A newspaper in Norway reports today that a pilot association seized the Independence of the Seas for non-payment of the association’s fees. The association petitioned a court in Norway to detain the cruise ship. A local bailiff served the arrest papers today.

The Independence of the Seas was in Alesund, Norway at the time of…

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