AIDS TO NAVIGATION

Aids for navigation are tools that used for visual radar while in ports and beach navigation.

The vessel specially equipped to maintain navigation buoys, beacons, automatic lighthouses

Pilotage

Pilotage is an essential service provided to ships m within port limits and coastal waters declared as Pilo

Ship sail from mid sea to anchorage or pilot point. local experienced pilot takes the control of ship Captain.

Pilot reaches the ship either by helicopter or by sm gets help or assistances from tug boats to control pull or push to exact route or position.

Towage

A tug (tugboat) is a boat or ship that maneuvers pushing or towing them.

Tugs move vessels that either should not move by t such as ships in a crowded harbor or a narrow can that could not move by themselves, such as barge ships, log rafts, or oil platforms.

BERTHING/ UNBERTHING

Berthing means bringing a vessel to her berth until the ship is made fast.

The term “berth” refers to the quay, or wharf, or, pier or jetty where the ship comes alongside.

Repairs

The berthing and unberthing maneuvers require great knowledge and skill by the master, officers and the crew, as well as an excellent team work with the rope runners and the mooring party ashore.

All ships need repair and maintenance operation that can be performed at the sea or by the crew in port. The large scale repairing must be required the ship to remove from commercial operations.