Milano Bridge allides with gantry crane in Busan today

[Kennebec_Captain]

That’s a good find.

My thinking here is this is more of a planning error than an error of execution. There are several factors here which may have put this shiphandling problem outside the pilots experience and seat of the pants intuition.

@Kennebec_Captain

The reason the MAIB suggests having the pilot board at the pilot station instead of in the channel is to give more time for master- pilot exchange (MPX).

The standard approach the MAIB is using here is not going to work, this is not a problem pilots and captains can solve in real time on the run. It’s not about individuals or specific ports or berths. The whole system needs to be looked at as a whole.

For the report the port ran simulations to see at what speed is required to make that turn. That should have been long before any of these mega-ships arrived at that port. The port and/or the owners should have been required to calculate the required information and provided it to port control, the pilot and the captain long before arrival.

Upon pilot boarding the pilot and captain should have access to a completed plan with a planned track with the required speeds points clearly marked.

From my experience at least pilots in Pusan don’t do a real master/pilot exchange. Just sign the paper and get on with it.