Marstrand's pilot station closed after district court verdict - staff in crisis meeting

As early as Wednesday, piloting stopped being carried out by the Norwegian Maritime Administration's pilot station at Marstrand. Instead, the personnel group sat in a crisis meeting with the occupational health service and representatives of the personnel department.

The reason was the district court judgment handed down against one of the station's employees, where the pilot together with the master aboard the freighter Misje Verde were found liable after the fatal accident outside Tjörn last summer. The ship then collided with a leisure boat and two people in the boat died.

No pilot has previously been convicted in a similar case, and the announcement caused strong concern among colleagues.

According to the Swedish Maritime Administration, at least ten ships are affected by the closed station at Marstrand.

- Yes, that is the information I have, but it is of course based on the longer the traffic is down, says Björn Alverfeldt, press spokesperson at the Swedish Maritime Administration.

The meeting inside the pilot station resumed on Thursday morning and is still ongoing.

- This involves, among other things, finding out how many people feel so bad that they have to be taken out on sick leave.

Are there similar reactions elsewhere in the country?

- Not that I know of.

According to the press department, it is not possible to say when pilot traffic can start again.