Thursday to the point where a pilot from the Port of Mobile will board the ship and guide it to dock, the same official said.

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Thursday, to the point where a pilot from the Port of Mobile will board the ship and guide it to dock, the same official told CNN.

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Frontex, a Warsaw-based agency created in 2004 to manage the EU's external borders, will open a pilot office in the Greek port of Piraeus in October.

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But that's one of the reasons that we have a state and federally licensed pilot to guide the ship through the port.

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Despite incredibly detailed maps of every port, we still rely on their descendants to pilot commercial ships into harbor.

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