Delta Lotsman or Delta Pilot ( uk, Державне підприємство "Дельта-лоцман") 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 Mykolaiv ( uk, Миколаїв, ) is a city and municipality in Southern Ukraine, the administrative center of the Mykolaiv Oblast. Mykolaiv city, which provides Ukraine with access to the Black Sea, is the location of the most downriver brid ...

, Ukraine. It is governed by the

Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA) ( uk, Адміністрація морських портів України (АМПУ)) is a state company created in 2013 after the adoption of the law "On Sea Ports of Ukraine" and united all ports of Ukra ...

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 A pilot boat is a type of boat used to transport maritime pilots between land and the inbound or outbound ships that they are piloting. Pilot boats were once sailing boats that had to be fast because the first pilot to reach the incoming ship ...

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 (BDLC), Kherson Marine Canal (KhMC) and the Deepwater Navigation Course Danube-Black Sea (see

Bystroye Canal The Deepwater Navigation Course "Danube – Black Sea" is a deep-water canal in the Danube Delta that runs through the Danube Delta distributaries Chilia, Old Istambul and "Bystroe". Through most of its length it coincides with the R ...

). The company has a well-developed infrastructure of vessel traffic control (RRS service) 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

s 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. * Project 1459 is an inshore pilot boat with power of . It was created by Leningrad Central Project Design Bureau, an all its ships were built by the Leningrad Shipyard "Pella" ( Otradnoye, Russia) in 1977–1992) The cutter has two diesel engines of 3D12 type. These types of pilot boats are very common in the post Soviet countries including the Baltic states. In Ukraine most of these pilot boats owned and operated by the Delta Lotsman, but there are few that serve local sea ports. ** Komsomolets Hutsal (1988) ** LK-115 (1991) ** Lotsman Mazhara (1987) ** LK-121 (1992) ** Morskoi-2 (1978) taken away by Russia ** LK-88 (1989) taken away by Russia ** LK-102 (1989) taken away by Russia ** Almaz (1990) taken away by Russia * Project 14550 is a modernized version of project 1459. Those are also the same type of pilot boats just a little improved. The vessels were designed and built by the same companies in 1990s after dissolution of the Soviet Union. ** Kapitan Belukha (1995) * Project 70161 is a Ukrainian type of pilot boats built at

Okean Shipyard The Okean Shipyard ( ua, Завод «Океан») located in Mykolaiv, Ukraine is the third major ship construction yard in the area.Norman Polmar, ''Guide to the Soviet Navy'', Fourth Edition (1986), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Mar ...

. These pilot boats have power of . There is only one known type of vessel. ** Lotsman Kokhanov (2001)Lotsman Kokhanov characteristics
at Delta Lotsman website

References

External links

Official website

River information service

Fleet list on August of 2017
Delta Lotsman website.
Fleet list on August of 2017
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