PLA News Releases

Four recently-qualified watermen will battle it out on the River Thames in central London on 4 September in the annual Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager, the oldest rowing race in the world, started in 1715.

Sustainability, innovation & change and habitats are the themes for this year’s Port of London Authority (PLA) annual Thames environment conference, set to be delivered as a series of three webinars, on 16, 17 and 18 March 2021.

We will be holding our Annual Stakeholder Forum on Tuesday, 17 May 2022 as a hybrid event, both online and in person, at IET London, Savoy Place.

Applications are open for our 2022 Environment Fund, offering grants of up to £5,000 to help not-for-profit organisations who are active on the Thames to buy electric engines for their vessels.

The second PLA Olympic ‘gatekeeper’ patrol started operations on the Thames at Richmond on Wednesday, 25 July.

A day of celebrations and thanksgiving was held at the London Cruise terminal in Tilbury today (22 June) to mark the 70th anniversary of the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush into the port on Tuesday 22 June 1948 with hundreds of people on board who travelled for 30 days from Jamaica to begin a new life in Great Britain.

Improved habitat for birds, bees and other wildlife is to be created along the River Thames in Kent and Essex in a new partnership between the Port of London Authority (PLA) and the RSPB. The Thames Estuary contains some of the most important and protected wetland habitat in the UK, Ends For further information and to arrange an interview, please contact: • Fabian Harrison, RSPB Media Officer – [email protected] / 01603 697595 / 07738101820 • Nick Tennant, PLA Head of Communications – nick,[email protected] / 01474 562246 / 07784 208074

Estuary Services Limited’s (ESL) two new pilot launches were officially named in Ramsgate today (Thursday, 31 October 2013).

The Thames island, Oliver’s Ait, below Kew Bridge, has been given a £30,000 face lift by PLA engineers to protect it from erosion.

A half-a-million pound grant from the London Mayor's Air Quality Fund will drive work to reduce pollution from boats on the tidal Thames.