Setting the course

Pilotage ensures navigational safety and efficiency within Finland’s rocky fairways.

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Pilotage Fees 30.9.2024

Pilotage fees will be increased by 3.5% as of 1 January 2025

Finnpilot Pilotage Ltd wants to ensure the availability and flexibility of its pilotage services, even in times of financial difficulty. The company has responded to the decline in number of...

Appointments 7.8.2024

Changes to Finnpilot’s management team as of Sep 1, 2024

Aki Marjasvaara appointed as Chief Operating Officer There will be changes in Finnpilot Pilotage Oy’s management team as of September 1, 2024, when the current Pilotage Director Sanna...

Annual report 4.4.2024

Savings could not counter the decline in pilotage demand, resulting in a financial loss for the year

Finnpilot’s year was coloured by the continuation of Russia’s war on Ukraine and its impact on the number of pilotage assignments. Finland’s decelerated economic growth was reflected in the...

Task and impact of pilotage

Safe fairway navigation, protection of the fragile environment

The conditions of the Finnish archipelago are among the most challenging to navigate in the world. A pilot who is familiar with local conditions provides a shipmaster with invaluable assistance to guarantee safe fairway navigation.

When a large ship enters the fairway from the open sea, it finds itself in a highly formidable environment: the fairways are narrow, the waters are shallow and rocky and there is no room for navigational errors.

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