Pilotage in Finland BPAC Bergen 18 May 2017 Jukka Tuomaala Special - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Pilotage in Finland

BPAC Bergen 18 May 2017 Jukka Tuomaala Special Adviser

Finnish Transport Safety Agency

Facts & Figures

5000 10000 15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000

y 2007 y 2008 y 2009 y 2010 y 2011 y 2012 y 2013 y 2014 y 2015 y 2016

36466 36208 25703 29381 25939 26848 27848 25472 23996 23461

Record of number of Pilotages

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Facts & Figures

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100000 200000 300000 400000 500000 600000 700000 800000

y 2007 y 2008 y 2009 y 2010 y 2011 y 2012 y 2013 y 2014 y 2015 y 2016

722878 705785 488809 574229 580049 509700 480462 476330 459651 439519

Record of Piloted miles

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Valid Pilot licences, PEC’s & Exemptions

483 366 360 342 301 286 237 237 220 887 891 872 840 805 763 743 736 661 163 186 252 320 325 331 306 247 125

100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Pilot LIC PEC EXMPT

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Pilot licences, PECs & Exemptions

year 2016

• Trafi has issued during the year 2016:
• 19 new pilot licenses
• 82 pilot licenses renewed
• New fairway has been added to 7 pilot licences
• 85 new PECs
• 121 PECs renewed
• New fairway has been added to 15 PECs
• 34 new Exemptions
• 4 exemptions renewed

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Legislation exercise

• Revision of Pilotage act (940/2003) and New

Government Decree on Pilotage (1385/2016):

• New legislation came into effect 1.1.2017
• Work included amendments into Vessel Traffic Service act

(623/2005)

• Took abt. 2,5 years
• First round of comments Nov/Dec. 2015
• Second round of comments in March/April 2016
• Still large number of comments with conflicting views
• Further work carried out by Ministry of Transport and

Communications together with Trafi

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Main Changes 1

• Removed ship’s draft (4,5m) as a trigger for pilotage
• Other triggers being length 70m and breadth 14m, the draft

was not seen very significant limitation:

• Studied all vessel calls into Finnish ports and the dimensions
• f the calling vessels for one year period
• Studied dimensions of vessels in the Register of Ships
• Of cargo vessels, length/ breadth limit was reached before

the draft limit

• Small amount of Tugboats were within the other dimensions

and exeeded the draft 4,5m

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Main changes 2

• Facilitation of bunker services, (especially LNG)
• Tankers under 90m of length, carrying Gas or MGO are now

possible to be exempted from compolsory pilotage by PECs

• Previously the dangerous cargo triggered the pilotage
• Precondition is double hull
• No excemptions were possible
• Precondition is that both the Master and Mate have PEC

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Main changes 3

• Icebreakers are liberated from compolsory pilotage
• Up to now they have operated by excemptions
• From now on no excemption certificate is required
• Icebreaker is a vessel which has contract with Transport

Agency for icebreaking services

• The Transport Agency has a possibility by contract to require

any familiarization or training and experience

• Tugboat with Tow of total length of max. 50m + 110m

are liberated from the compolsory pilotage

• Prerequisite is that the Tug is fitted with A –class AIS device

messaging that the tow is under way

• Up to now they have mainly operated by excemptions

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Main changes 4

• Training and examinations
• Provisions of the requirements for training institute
• STCW –audited
• Nominated personnel for pilot training, familiar with pilotage
• Written curriculum covering the requirements of the provisions
• Suitable simulator with related software and up to date simulated

fairways and ship models

• Suitable facilities and quality management system
• No regulated prices anymore
• Trafi evaluates whether the training organizer fullfils the

requirements for approval of the training provider

• Inspections may be executed any time

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Main changes 5

• Handbook for pilotage
• Required of pilotage operator and VTS (amended provision)
• For ensuring operational uniformity and actions in accidents

and states of emergency

• Descriptions of procedures and communication
• For enchancing cooperation between pilots and VTS
• Description of cooperation between different authorities
• Trafi has general duty to oversee pilotage

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Main changes 6

• Registers, fairways, pilot boarding, exemtions
• Trafi issues degree of pilot boarding places and fairways

where the pilotage is compolsory

• Trafi keeps register of issued certificates
• VTS – Trafi information exchange abt. valid certificates

(electronic means)

• Trafi may issue exemptions for:
• Weather/Ice conditions, environmental emergencies, exercises,

competitions/races, fairway contruction projects, surveys, cable laying or similar operations, special transport operation (tow), especial services in archipelago

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Responsible traffic. Bravely together.

Finnish Transport Safety Agency Kumpulantie 9, 00520 Helsinki PO Box 320, FI-00101 Helsinki, Finland Telephone +358 29 534 5000 www.trafi.fi

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