The pilot service 

European Service

The Elbe Pilot will board your vessel in any non-German port along the northern European coast if your vessel is bound for the river Elbe. Those porst are among others

Amsterdam, Antwerp, Esbjerg, Felixstowe, Gotheburg, Immingham, Kristiansand, Le Havre, Oslo, Rotterdam, Southampton, STockholm, Tilbury, Vlissingen....

The Pilot will usually travel with plane and taxi and use the transport to board the vessel via shore gangway.

Or

The Elbe Pilot will board your vessel whilst underway using pilot launches of other Pilot Stations or ports like e.g.

Brixham, Cherbourg, Dover or Skagen (Skaw)

for transfer.

The pilot will usually travel with plane, trains and taxi to the Pilot Station or port an will board the vessel via pilot launch.