A new photographic exhibition opened at Fremantle’s Maritime Museum yesterday. The Pilot on Board exhibition highlights the critical role marine pilots have played at the Port of Fremantle since the first pilot service began in 1829. For almost two centuries marine pilots have operated out of Fremantle and from Rottnest Island. The photos in the exhibition range from old black […]

The Freo Pilot service has been around for nearly 200 years, thats sooner after colonisation than i’d have guessed.

I’m guessing the Kwinana facility will still have a pilot service, but theres no way the docks down there will be as tricky for the container ships as Freo is.