Sentence examples for a pilotage from inspiring English sources

One piece of legislation passed was a pilotage law that set standards and licensed boat pilots at the mouth of the Columbia River.

"If we have an employee who started out as a deckhand and then works on his own and gets his mate's license and then gets his pilotage to be an assistant captain, I guarantee we're going to move him up," he said.

Anyway, they add, pilotage rates do not affect a shipowner's decision about using a port.

Mr. Dickey, 35, is the manager of Pilotage Fun and Hobby, a Manhattan shop that sells remote-control versions of nearly everything.

Benbow was highly regarded as a specialist in both navigation and pilotage, and his evidence given in July 1690 to the preliminary investigation strongly favoured his old patron, Torrington.

Russia can be expected to exact a steep price in transit fees and pilotage.

There is continued debate over whether familiar landmarks provide direct guidance for animals orienting in a familiar area (i.e. in pilotage), or whether guidance is provided by memorized compass instructions tied to familiar places in a mosaic map (Holland, 2003).

Port commissioners (local grandees elected or appointed to the office) have the power to revoke a pilot's commission for negligence and to refuse increases in pilotage rates and are often, pilots say, woefully ignorant.The tension continues.

This could provide an opportunity for testing the impact of such experimental technologies as remote pilotage (Hadley, 1999), or shared mental model systems (e.g. Owen et al., 2013) for improving efficiency and safety in port entry.

The need for craft of the boat class in fisheries, pilotage, salvage, and transport resulted in almost innumerable models, each designed for superior performance in a specific task and to meet geographic and economic needs.

The pilots should remember that it was high pilotage rates on the Mississippi in the 1870s that first brought big business to Texas's ports.