{"id":1556,"date":"2026-09-07T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:29:44","slug":"pilot-ladder-modification-coming-in-force-by-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/pilot-ladder-modification-coming-in-force-by-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilot Ladder Modification coming in force by 2028"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Important changes are coming to pilot transfer arrangements, covering pilot ladder service life, spare equipment, rigging, securing arrangements, strength requirements and installation standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A quick reference for shipowners, operators, masters, deck officers and seafarers to start preparing ahead of the 2028 requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the key changes in the PDF below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of PILOT TRANSFER.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-08c7875a-294c-4e8f-8156-cb6c83b1e8e9\" href=\"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER.pdf\">PILOT TRANSFER<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-08c7875a-294c-4e8f-8156-cb6c83b1e8e9\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important changes are coming to pilot transfer arrangements, covering pilot ladder service life, spare equipment, rigging, securing arrangements, strength requirements and installation standards. A quick reference for shipowners, operators, masters, deck officers and seafarers to start preparing ahead of the 2028 requirements. Read the key changes in the PDF below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[967,463,8,210,223,58,7,870,873,200,272,212,213,329,204],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imo-solas-marpol-stcw-loadline-ism-isps-statutory","tag-deckofficers","tag-marineoperations","tag-marinersupdate","tag-maritimecompliance","tag-maritimeindustry","tag-maritimesafety","tag-mu","tag-pilotladder","tag-pilottransfer","tag-safetyatsea","tag-seafarers-2","tag-shipmanagement","tag-shippingindustry","tag-shipsafety","tag-solas"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER-724x1024.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER-212x300.jpg","large":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/PILOT-TRANSFER-724x1024.jpg"},"ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1559,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1559"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marinersupdate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}