Recommendation Date
Recipient Name
Otago RC
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Introduce the following directions into the harbour bylaws covering their ports, to emphasise the intent and principles of STCW and SOLAS:
• all vessels, whether under pilotage or pilot exempt, shall have an agreed passage plan for transits within harbour limits
• the number of crew members on the bridge shall be sufficient to safely carry out the agreed passage plan
• in determining the composition of the bridge team, due regard shall be taken of the need to steer, operate manoeuvring machinery, monitor the progress of the vessel visually, use all available aids to navigation and refer to an appropriate navigational chart.
• all vessels, whether under pilotage or pilot exempt, shall have an agreed passage plan for transits within harbour limits
• the number of crew members on the bridge shall be sufficient to safely carry out the agreed passage plan
• in determining the composition of the bridge team, due regard shall be taken of the need to steer, operate manoeuvring machinery, monitor the progress of the vessel visually, use all available aids to navigation and refer to an appropriate navigational chart.
Reply Text
Your recommendation is to introduce new by-laws into the existing harbour by-laws covering the port of Otago. You have identified three suggestions for change to the by-laws. Each of these three suggestions relates to maters that appear to be the domain of the Maritime Safety Authority concerning vessel crewing and seamanship training, not harbour management (pilotage and harbourmastering) per se.
There is a lengthy procedure to be undertaken in order to change or establish new harbour by-laws. Any decision to alter by-laws is firstly a matter for Council consideration and then a full public procedure. Your recommendations arrived too late to be placed on the agenda of our last Committee meetings for 2000. They will be placed before Committee next year. I will advise you in due course of the Council’s decision on your recommendation 116/00.
There is a lengthy procedure to be undertaken in order to change or establish new harbour by-laws. Any decision to alter by-laws is firstly a matter for Council consideration and then a full public procedure. Your recommendations arrived too late to be placed on the agenda of our last Committee meetings for 2000. They will be placed before Committee next year. I will advise you in due course of the Council’s decision on your recommendation 116/00.
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