You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
You shouldn't need a source, a harbour pilot should always be driving the ship, that is standard procedure for most harbours in the world with dredged channels.
Even where I live, where the harbour isn't dredged (doesn't need to be), is huge and extremely deep, we still have harbour pilots to get all large ships out, mostly because we've already had one bridge disaster, and we would very much like to avoid another...
So yeah, I think here it might apply to all ports, dredged or otherwise.
A couple of years ago, one of these ships managed to crash into, and sink, two of the (quite large) harbour tugs, that in itself was a massive incident, which I think is still before the courts, but just imagine if it had sunk a passenger ferry or oil tanker or something instead...
It's amazing how often shit like this happens, somewhere around the world, unfortunately...
Globalized supply chains, woohoo!