Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Act 39 - SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, PILOTAGE RATES - RATES OF PILOTAGE AND COMPUTATION, PILOTAGE FEES AND UNIT CHARGE AND CHARGES FOR SERVICES

Session of 2022
No. 2022-39
 
HB 2420
 
AN ACT
 
Amending the act of May 11, 1889 (P.L.188, No.210), entitled "A further supplement
to an act, entitled 'An act to establish a board of wardens for the Port of Philadelphia,
and for the regulation of pilots and pilotage, and for other purposes,' approved March
twenty-ninth, one thousand eight hundred and three, and for regulating the rates of
pilotage and number of pilots," further providing for rates of pilotage and computation,
for pilotage fees and unit charge and for charges for services.

 
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:
 
Section 1.  Sections 3.1(b) and (c), 3.2(b) and (c) and 3.3(1), (2), (3) and (5) of the act of
May 11, 1889 (P.L.188, No.210), entitled "A further supplement to an act, entitled
'An act to establish a board of wardens for the Port of Philadelphia, and for the
regulation of pilots and pilotage, and for other purposes,' approved March twenty-ninth,
one thousand eight hundred and three, and for regulating the rates of pilotage and
number of pilots," are amended to read:

Section 3.1.  For services rendered on and after January 1, 1990, retroactively, the rates of pilotage
for conducting a vessel from the Capes of the Delaware to a place on the Delaware
River or Bay no further upriver than the Delair Railroad Bridge between Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and Delair, New Jersey, or from a place on the river Delaware no further
upriver than the Delair Railroad Bridge between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Delair,
New Jersey, to the Capes of the Delaware, in either case, shall be computed as follows:

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(b)  The charges per unit shall be as follows:


[(viii)  Effective January 1, 2019‌


$14.47 per unit


(ix)  Effective January 1, 2020‌


$14.61 per unit


(x)  Effective January 1, 2021‌


$14.76 per unit]


(xi)  Effective January 1, 2022‌


$14.91 per unit


(xii)  Effective January 1, 2023‌


$15.66 per unit


(xiii)  Effective January 1, 2024‌


$16.44 per unit


(xiv)  Effective January 1, 2025‌


$17.26 per unit
(c)  There shall be a minimum charge of two hundred units and a maximum unit charge as
follows:

[(viii)  Effective January 1, 2019............
1,500 units


(ix)  Effective January 1, 2020‌


1,550 units


(x)  Effective January 1, 2021‌


1,550 units]


(xi)  Effective January 1, 2022‌


1,550 units


(xii)  Effective January 1, 2023‌


1,550 units


(xiii)  Effective January 1, 2024‌


1,550 units


(xiv)  Effective January 1, 2025‌


1,550 units
Section 3.2.  That every ship or vessel bound to the Delaware breakwater for orders shall be obliged
to receive a pilot, provided she is spoken or a pilot offers his services, outside
of a straight line drawn from Cape Henlopen Light to Cape May Light, and every ship
or vessel bound to the breakwater for orders shall pay pilotage fees as follows: A
sum equal to half the pilotage to the Port of Philadelphia, and she shall be obliged
to take a pilot and pay the same pilotage fees when outward bound, from the breakwater,
and if such ship or vessel, without discharging her pilot, proceed to the Port of
Philadelphia or any other port or place on the bay or river Delaware, only one full
pilotage fee as fixed by section 3.1 of this act, for the entire service, in addition
to the fee for detention: Provided, however, That if the pilot bringing such ship
or vessel to the breakwater be there discharged, and the ship or vessel afterward
proceed to Philadelphia or any other port or place on the bay or river Delaware, she
shall make the usual signal for a pilot and continue to make such signal till reaching
Brandywine Light, and if spoken by, or offered the services of, a duly licensed Pennsylvania
pilot before reaching Brandywine Light, shall be obliged to employ such pilot and
pay him for services rendered on and after the effective date of this act, a charge
computed as follows:

* * *
(b)  The charges per unit shall be as follows:


[(viii)  Effective January 1, 2019‌


$14.47 per unit


(ix)  Effective January 1, 2020‌


$14.61 per unit


(x)  Effective January 1, 2021‌


$14.76 per unit]


(xi)  Effective January 1, 2022‌


$14.91 per unit


(xii)  Effective January 1, 2023‌


$15.66 per unit


(xiii)  Effective January 1, 2024‌


$16.44 per unit


(xiv)  Effective January 1, 2025‌


$17.26 per unit
(c)  There shall be a minimum charge of two hundred units and a maximum unit charge as
follows:



[(viii)  Effective January 1, 2019‌


1,500 units


(ix)  Effective January 1, 2020‌


1,550 units


(x)  Effective January 1, 2021‌


1,550 units]


(xi)  Effective January 1, 2022‌


1,550 units


(xii)  Effective January 1, 2023‌


1,550 units


(xiii)  Effective January 1, 2024‌


1,550 units


(xiv)  Effective January 1, 2025‌


1,550 units
Section 3.3.  The following charges are hereby authorized for the services stated:
(1)  Ship communication charge:
 


Vessels transiting the Delaware River‌


 
[$265.00]
$275.00
(2)  Transporting vessels in the Delaware:
 


Philadelphia (or other place) to Marcus Hook‌


 
[800.00] 1,000.00
Philadelphia (or other place) below Marcus Hook
 
[800.00] 1,000.00


Philadelphia Harbor to Torresdale‌


 
[800.00] 1,000.00


Philadelphia Harbor to any place above Torresdale‌


 
 
[1,050.00] 1,200.00
(3)  Extra services:
 


Swing ship to adjust magnetic compass‌


300.00


Swing ship to calibrate direction finder‌


300.00


Vessels anchoring below Brown Shoal in excess of three hours awaiting flood tide for
transiting river channel‌


 
 
 
[450.00]
500.00


Carried to/from Baltimore‌


600.00


Carried to/from Norfolk‌


1,000.00


Carried to/from New York‌


1,000.00
Vessels entering the Capes for anchorage at the Breakwater for other than tide shall
pay one-half pilotage in and one-half pilotage out.

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(5)  Cancellation of sailing orders:
 


Cancellation charge‌


 
[600.00] 1,000.00
Any time a pilot is dispatched for sailing and the trip or movement is canceled, for
reason other than weather, the vessel shall be subject to this charge, except when
the Pilot Office is notified as follows:

All piers north of Hog Island
 
-
1 1/2 hours before sailing time.
All piers north of Paulsboro
-
2 hours before sailing time.
All piers south of the above
-
3 hours before sailing time.
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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.
 
APPROVED--The 7th day of July, A.D. 2022.
 
TOM WOLF

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