Discurso Otavio Bahrain (inglês)

7/29/2019 Discurso Otavio Bahrain (ingls)

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Your Excellency, Secretary General, Distinguished

guests, it is a great privilege and pleasure to be here

today. It is also very nice to be able to celebrate

World Maritime Day somewhere even warmer than myhome city of Rio! We are very grateful to the hosts of

this parallel event for their kindness and organization.

My name is Otavio Fragoso and I am the Senior Vice-

President of IMPA. I would like to begin with a short

movie.

IMPA represents the international community of pilots.

We use the resources of our membership to promoteeffective safety outcomes in pilotage as an essential

public service.

IMPA is an enthusiastic supporter and believer in the

valuable work of IMO. We have enjoyed consultative

status at IMO for over 40 years.

IMPA believes that:

The public interest is best served by a fully regulated

and cohesive pilotage service free of commercial

pressure.

There is no substitute for the presence of a qualified

pilot on the bridge. There is no such activity as ShoreBased Pilotage.

IMO is the prime authority in matters concerning safety

of international shipping.

All states should adopt a responsible approach based

on proven safety strategies in establishing their own

regulations, standards and procedures with respect to


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pilotage. IMO Resolution A960 provides the key

building block for National Regulation.

Existing and emerging information technologies are

capable of enhancing on-board decision making bythe maritime pilot.

Martime pilots provide an essential and unique service

to the shipping industry. Their principal role is to:

Provide critical independent local knowledgeand navigational information to vessels.

Bring the highest level of shiphandling skills tomanoeuvre vessels within their port.

The prime obligation of pilots is to provide a critical

public safety service by ensuring the careful

management and free flow of all traffic within their

pilotage area, thus protecting the environment. Pilots

need to be able to exercise their professionaljudgement undeterred by commercial or economic

pressure. Pilotage is an essential part of a Ports Safety

Management System and compulsory pilotage is

considered to be the most effective and important

form of navigation safety regulation.

Pilots bring great value to ports in terms of efficient

traffic management and they are the surest methodof improving economic and safety outcomes.

Pilots come aboard vessels by small boat or helicopter

at the most critical phase of a vessels voyage to assist

with the conduct of navigation in waters with limited

draught, widths, variable currents and other traffic

competing for space. Ships masters cannot be


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expected to fully conversant with the special

navigational and regulatory requirements of an area.

Pilots also bring highly developed shiphandling skills

which are necessary with ever-larger ships and theybring the local communications knowledge necessary

to work with local services such as tugs and linesmen.

A pilots training is of necessity long and thorough,

given the value of ships and their cargoes. Pilots

normally enter the profession after a career at sea and

learn their new trade mostly by mentoring from a

qualified and experienced pilot. This is typicallysupplemented by simulator training and model

training. Thereafter, training continues on a constant

basis to maintain skills to the very highest degree.

The Master and Pilot relationship is an intriguing

balance of mutual trust and respect, largely unwritten,

which provides an unrivalled level of safety in a societythat expects, and receives, the highest of standards

from the shipping industry. The relationship is

formalized in the STCW Code, and IMO Resolution

A960.

Navigation of a ship in pilotage waters is a shared

responsibility between the pilot and the master/bridge

crew. The compulsory pilot directs the navigation ofthe ship, subject to the Masters overall command of

the ship and the ultimate responsibility for its safety.

International law requires the master and/or the officer

in charge of the navigational watch to cooperate

closely with the pilot and maintain an accurate check

on the ships position and movement..


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Pilots are expected to act in the public interest and to

maintain a professional judgment that is independent

of any desires that do not comport with the needs of

maritime safety. In addition, licensing and regulatoryauthorities, state and federal, require compulsory pilots

to take all reasonable actions to prevent ships under

their navigational direction from engaging in unsafe

operations. Because of these duties, a compulsory

pilot is not a member of the bridge team.

Nevertheless, a pilot is expected to develop and

maintain a cooperative, mutually supportive working

relationship with the master and bridge crew inrecognition of the respective responsibility of each for

safe navigation.

The passage aheadwhat pilots are watching:-

Navigation TechnologyPilots are part of thedebate on ECDIS operating anomalies as well as

the wider E-Nav discussions. Whilst we look

sideways at Aviation we do not see an easy or

simple transition of ATC to shore-based control of

shipping and indeed we notice that the latest

technology has now moved the best traffic

picture back onto the bridge to a degree thathas caused one large country to close a number

of VTS stations. Pilots are in a leading role as

regards developing technology and their input

enables manufacturers and administrations to

understand the challenging and demanding

environment with which they are familiar. IMPA

does not support the monitoring navigatormodel proposed by a few, but regards


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navigation technology as an ongoing process

that needs to be focused on those on the Bridge.

Pilots offer a voice that can be an influence for

positive progress towards better trafficmanagement.

Ever-larger ships with decreasing UKC andmanoeuvrability, and poor bridge visibility,

operating in ports which rarely grow to match.

Pilots want their Industry to grow and develop,

but are conscious of the need for this

development to be sustainable.

Some governments view pilotage as a profitcentre or worse still, a candidate for

competition.

Bridge Standardsparticularly in Language andskills

IMPA is firmly focused on these four areas which they

believe are the most challenging to the work of pilotsand the added value they bring to the Industry.

How can IMPA be sure of its facts? The IMPA

Executive is formed entirely of licensed pilots who have

everyday experience of the nature of our Industry at

first handthis is me doing my day job! When wespeak at IMO it is with the benefit of seeing our industry

as it really is.

Every single day we go aboard ships of every size,

glass, flag and nation. We see and experience at very

close hand, the pulse of the industry. Its an industry

we want to be successful and safe. An industry of

which we are proud to be a part

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