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Pilotage And Shipping Movements

Volume 963: debated on Thursday 22 February 1979

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asked the Secretary of State for Trade (1) if he will publish in the Official Report figures for the number of licensed pilots and certificate holders in each pilotage district; and what estimates have been made of the number of applications likely to be made in each pilotage district by non-British European Economic Community nationals;(2) if he will publish in the

Official Report figures for the number of shipping movements in and out of British ports for the latest convenient year for each pilotage district together with a break-down of these figures for each pilotage district by reference to whether the ship

Pilotage District

Number of Licensed Pilots on 31 December 1977

Number of Pilotage Certificates in force on 31 December 1977

Possible issue of Pilotage Certificates to non-British EEC nationals

Number of ships piloted (acts of pilotage) in 1977

ENGLAND AND WALES
Arundel1318
Berwick3292
Blyth101,137
Boston and Spalding92,406
Bristol3062,134
Gloucester121,306
Hartlepool111,511
Humber207222031,617
King's Lynn1162,415
Lancaster190
Liverpool16618114,630
Manchester75156,832
Port Talbot4154
South East Wales4334,339
Sunderland111,251
Swansea15152,173
Tees526,301
Trinity House of Newcastle-upon-Tyne91,209
Tyne4144,249
Wisbech3703
London4491765055,080
Aberdovey1
Barrow4See Fleetwood1,210
Beaumaris and Caernarvon3170
Bridgwater2222
Bridport112
Brixham27166
Dartmouth27133
Dee3409
Exeter2432
Falmouth731,855
Fleetwood328608
Fowey83,811

had a pilot on board, was an exempt ship or had a certificate holder on board and the number of licensed pilots in each pilotage.

The information we have available is as follows: estimates of the pilotage certificates to EEC nationals are based on ferry movements only and assume that one master and one mate apply for a certificate for each ferry. No estimates have been made of the potential issue of certificates for other EEC ships.No central record is kept of shipping movements in and out of British ports. Where information exists, it is not directly comparable with the records which pilotage authorities keep of the number of acts of pilotage, as these include double acts of pilotage and shifts of ships within a district. The great majority of pilotage authorities do not keep a record of movements by a pilotage certificate holder. Pilotage authorities do not keep records of the movements of exempt ships.

Pilotage District

Number of Licensed Pilots on 31 December 1977

Number of Pilotage Certificates in force on 31 December 1977

Possible issue of Pilotage Certificates to non-British EEC nationals

Number of ships piloted (acts of pilotage) in 1977

Holyhead623223
Ilfracombe19
Ipswich102,814
Isle of Wight63851010,162
Lowestoft31,483
Milford22143,945
Neath2494
Newhaven32761,921
Orford Haven1
Padstow26
Penzance13652
Plymouth7323,355
Poole7583,878
Portmadoc2
Preston91,550
Rye……3143
Scilly2310
Shoreham73,008
Silloth7383
St. Ives244
Taw and Torridge3373
Teignmouth31,098
Watchet2318
Wells2142
Weymouth114167
Whitehaven and Maryport3806
Woodbridge
Yarmouth and Southwold166106,671
SCOTLAND
Aberdeen10910,432
Arbroath
Ayr33359
Buckie267
Burghead130
Clyde421734,071
Dundee11103,682
Elgin and Lossiemouth1113
Eyemouth
Forth611012,783
Fraserburgh2265
Inverness22390
Irvine1218
Lerwick672,681
Montrose31,075
Orknev
Peterhead332,318
Stonehaven
Sullom Voe, Shetland
Thurso
Wick186
NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast18644,637
Coleraine3167
Londonderry61,473
Portrush116