Delta Lotsman


Delta Lotsman or Delta Pilot is a branch of state company "Sea Ports Authority" and regulates vessel traffic in territorial waters of Ukraine and also providing navigation and piloting of marine vessels. The company is based in a capital of the Ukrainian shipbuilding Mykolaiv, Ukraine. It is governed by the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority.

Description

The company was chartered in February 1998. The company name consists of two words Delta which means a river mouth and Lotsman which is a pilot boat or a person who operates such boat. Delta Lotsman provides a safe voyage to all ports of Ukraine including through several canals Dnieper-Buh Estuary, Kherson Marine Canal and the Deepwater Navigation Course Danube-Black Sea. The company has a well-developed infrastructure of vessel traffic control that consists of 13 centers and posts of the service, 12 automated radiolocating posts and four radio-technical communication posts.
In 2013 Delta Lotsman was turned into a branch of state company "Sea Ports Administration" which supervises all sea ports.
Delta-Lotsman also has its own specialized fleet of pilot boats including about 20 pilot cutters, few surveying cutters, a multifunctional tug with ice passing abilities and a dredging boat.

Fleet

Due to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation several ships were taken away by the Russian authorities. Most of those vessels are operated by the Russian company Lotsman-Krym.