Evaluation of difficulties and risks of ship handling in case of entering port

The education and training of the third grade pilot have been started on October, 2008 in Japan. The third grade pilots are going to command ships for entering and leaving port from July, 2011. They had inadequate experience on board, of course no experience for entering and leaving port as pilots. In their education and training periods, they could not command vessels at all because of no pilot licenses. They could just only watch their senior pilots' ship handling. Therefore, in this paper, the authors tried to propose how to evaluate difficulty of each berth and navigation route from port entrance to berths. In addition, we consider risk of ship handling in case of entering port. To know the difficulty of berths, routes and risk of ship handling are useful for the training of fresh pilots after getting pilot licenses, because of their soft landing to professional pilot world. The easer berth and route are good for beginners of third grade pilot.