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19 October 2026

The pilot ladder rules that could send ships back to the yard

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The pilot ladder rules that could send ships back to the yard

New IMO rules will shift the focus of pilot transfer safety from how ladders are rigged to how ships are built, potentially forcing owners into significant modifications as compliance deadlines approach. Alex Byelyavtsev reports. For years, pilot-transfer safety was read as a rigging question. If the ladder was wrong, the crew had tied it wrong. …

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