PLA News Releases

The Port of Tilbury, London’s major port, has this week been awarded an internationally recognised quality mark – the Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) - issued by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC).

As cruising season approaches, the Port of London Authority (PLA) is helping narrowboaters prepare to make the challenging journey between canals and waterways along the tidal Thames.

Greenergy today began road-loading of diesel and heating oil at Thames Oilport, giving it a new and strategically important supply location in the South East of England.

In the first three months of the year, 66 ships calling at terminals on the Thames qualified for the UK’s first port charge discount for cleaner ships.

The shipping minister, John Hayes MP and deputy mayor of London for Transport, Val Shawcross were among more than 30 business leaders and politicians who joined the Port of London Authority’s first port infrastructure meeting, discussing the road, rail, river and crossing connections needed to unlock the forecast growth of the port over the next 20 years.

Online booking capability, provision of more coaching, new clubs and promotional campaigns are set to be at the heart of a new drive to double participation in sports on the Thames over the next two decades.

A young man who’s been taken on full time at the Port of London Authority (PLA) is proving that apprenticeships work.

Shipping Minister John Hayes CBE MP, marked National Apprenticeship Week by joining the Thames Skills Academy’s first event of the year ‘Navigating a Career on the River Thames’ day at Trinity House today.

A London teenager is set to swap school books for the rigours of the open sea, when she joins a crew for leg one of a transatlantic journey that begins on the Thames at Greenwich.