EMPA is a non-profit organization, created in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1963 by pilots of the newborn European Community. Nowadays EMPA regroups member countries associations of maritime pilots from the Baltic Sea, the North Sea, the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

EMPA represents about 4.500 maritime pilots from 19 European Union member countries, and 5 neighbouring countries, Georgia, Norway, Turkey, Ukraine and United Kingdom.

The role of EMPA is to facilitate the exchange of information between its members in order to continuously improve the professional and technical proficiency of maritime pilots in the EU and surrounding countries.

The EMPA Board was pleased to be able to organise the General meeting again in physical form without any specific measures.

The 56th EMPA General Meeting was organised on 27-28th of April 2022, online.

Cyber-MAR project was represented by Dr. Kimberly Tam by University of Plymouth. She provided a presentation entitled ‘Maritime cyber attacks‘ during the second day of the event. Her presentation can be found here.

The 56th EMPA General Meeting Full Program can be found here.