Pilotage and Surcharge Rates

• Q3 2023 Surcharges Implementation

• Pilotage Service Code & Charge Listing, 2017

• Pilotage Service Code & Charge Definitions

Access to Public Records:

• PRA Instructions

San Francisco Bar Pilot Fatigue Study

Prepared by Dr. Alan Hobbs of the San Jose State University Research Foundation, based at the NASA Ames Research Center, and in collaboration with Dr. Erin Flynn-Evans of the NASA Ames Fatigue Countermeasures Laboratory.

• 2018 San Francisco Bar Pilot Fatigue Study

State Leadership Accountability Act Reports

• Biennial Report for Period Ending December 31, 2023 (pdf) NEW
• Biennial Report for Period Ending December 31, 2019 (pdf)

Pilot Fitness Study

• Pilot Fitness Study for the Board of Pilot Commissioners for the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun, May 26, 2011

Board Response to National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) M-11-19 Stemming from the Incident Involving the Tankship Eagle Otome:

• Report to the NTSB concerning Safety Recommendation M-11-19, issued following the incident involving the EAGLE OTOME

• Response from Christopher A. Hart, Chairman of the NTSB

California State Auditor’s Report

Report 2013-501 (follow-up audit to the 2009 report)

• Full Report (pdf)

Rate Hearing 2015

The Board of Pilot Commissioners has received a petition for a rate hearing from the San Francisco Bar Pilots (SFBP).  A copy of this petition, accompanying Consolidated Financial Statement for 2013 and 2014, Pacific Merchant Shipping Associations opposition to the petition, and various documents related to the Rate Hearing are posted below:

• Petition for rate hearing dated February 23, 2015

• SFBP Consolidated Financial Statement 2013

• SFBP Consolidated Financial Statement 2014

• Notice of Rate Hearing to be held on April 1, 2015 at the Milton Marks Conference Center, Milton Marks Auditorium, 455 Golden Gate, San Francisco, CA 94102

• SFBP Petition and Evidence in Support of Change in Pilotage Rates

• PMSA Response In Opposition to SFBP Petition

• SFBP Section 237(d) Data, January 2, 2014 through December 31, 2014

• SFBP – Industry Agreed Expense Projections altering Exhibit (E) to the Declaration of Captain Peter McIsaac

• Corrected versions of Exhibits (A-1) through (A-8) to the the Declaration of Captain Gregory Tylawsky

• Board of Pilot Commissioner’s retirement survey data (pdf format), January 2015

• Board of Pilot Commissioner’s retirement survey data (xls format), January 2015

• Public Comment from the Western States Petroleum Association presented to the Board on April 1, 2015

• Pre-hearing Order dated March 26, 2015

• Board Findings and Recommendations resulting from the hearing

• Hearing transcript from April 1, 2015

• Hearing transcript from April 2, 2015

• Hearing transcript from April 10, 2015

Annual Legislative Reports

•      2023 Full Report (pdf)
•      2022 Full Report (pdf)
• 2021 Full Report (pdf)
• 2020 Full Report (pdf)
• 2019 Full Report (pdf)
• 2018 Full Report (pdf)
• 2017 Full Report (pdf)
• 2016 Full Report (pdf)
• 2015 Full Report (pdf)
• 2014 Full Report (pdf)
• 2013 Full Report (pdf)
• 2012 Full Report (pdf)
• 2011 Full Report (pdf)
• 2010 Full Report (pdf)
• 2009 Full Report (pdf)