New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter II - Board of Commissioners of Pilots
Part 55 - Fees For Pilotage
Section 55.3 - Supplementary fees-Long Island Sound and Block Island Sound

(1) Pilot Units (PU). Pilot Units shall be determined by multiplying the overall length of the vessel by the extreme breadth by the depth to the uppermost continuous deck, in feet, and dividing the total by 10,000.

(2) Tariff rates.

(1) Docking and undocking. All vessels shall pay a docking/ undocking fee of one dollar forty cents $1. 40 per pilotage unit with a minimum fee of two hundred eighty dollars ($280.00).

(2) Launch hire. The launch hire to put a pilot on or off a ship in the NY Harbors of the Long Island Sound will be billed at cost.

(3) Shift within any harbor. The fee for a shift within any harbor is $850.00 in addition to the docking and undocking charge as above.

(4) Shift less than 25 miles in Long Island Sound. The fee for shifts less than 25 miles in Long Island Sound is the 2/3 rate. The fee for a vessel shifting to or from anchorage to a platform is the 2/3 rate.

(5) Excess of 8 hours for tows. A fee of $215.00 for each hour of pilotage in excess of 8 hours.

(6) Excess of 8 hour transit. In order to avoid fatigue two pilots shall be assigned to any unit where the transit is anticipated to be over 8 hours. This requires two full pilot fees. The excess of 8 hour fee shall not be charged. Launch hire shall be billed at cost.

(7) Detention for arrival and departures: When a ship's arrival or departure is delayed more than one hour, unless a 6 hour notice of change has been provided to the Administrator dispatch office, $ 300.00 detention will be billed for each hour in excess of one hour from the time of the original order.

(8) Detention at anchor or platform. Detention will be billed when a pilot is detained aboard a vessel at anchorage or at platform at a rate of $ 300.00 per hour for every hour detained. (Detention includes vessels waiting inbound or outbound, for stores, surveyors, repairs, tide, berth availability, weather, linemen, excess of one hour thirty minutes tying up, etc.

(9) Cancellation. If an order is cancelled less than 6 hours prior to the time of the order, a cancellation fee of $ 1,000.00 will be billed.

(10) Pilot boat fuel surcharge. There is currently in place a $ 253.00 fuel surcharge for all pilot boardings and disembarkations by pilot boat. Surcharge adjusts every quarter.

(11) Safety training surcharge. Surcharge of $25.00 for all pilot boardings and disembarkations by the pilot boat for the safety equipment and training fund.

(12) Pilot Carried Away. Should a pilot be carried away the following fees will apply: $1,120.00 for the 1st day, $560.00 for each additional day and the cost of 1st class travel expenses back to origin.