PLA News Releases

PLA deputy harbour master Miles Featherstone, from Maidstone, is looking forward to overseeing our support for this year’s Boat Race on 26 March.

Maritime UK Patron, HRH The Princess Royal, joined industry leaders and government partners to celebrate the best of the UK's maritime sector at the Maritime UK Awards in Hull on 9 March 2023.

The Port of London Authority’s (PLA’s) first annual, week-long event ‘Safe Boarding Week’ has been a great success. The total number of inspections was 265, far exceeding the target of 200, and included gangways, ladders from berths, piers and linkspans, along the 95 miles of tidal Thames in the PLA’s jurisdiction.

The former Dartford International Ferry Terminal, recently acquired by the PLA, is the starting point for a new, pollution-reducing trial, ferrying light freight into London by river.

Baroness Vere of Norbiton, the new Maritime Minister, visited the Port of London Authority (PLA), the organisation overseeing operations in the UK’s largest port, yesterday (1 March 2023) during its inaugural annual safety initiative, ‘Safe Boarding Week’.

The Port of London Authority (PLA) has appointed Grace Rawnsley as its first director of sustainability.

The Port of London Authority has achieved a major milestone, halving its carbon emissions last year, as it made strong progress in its Net Zero programme.

The Port of London Authority has begun its first ever ‘Safe Boarding Week’ today (27 February), a seven-day safety initiative that is the first of its kind in Europe. ‘Safe Boarding Week’ aims to increase awareness of safe access to and from vessels along the 95 miles of the tidal Thames that is in the PLA’s jurisdiction.

Leading wet civil and environmental engineering firm, Land & Water Group, has upgraded Berth 3 at Coldharbour Jetty, on the River Thames, to accommodate coaster vessels, used for short sea shipping, as part of a landmark development for the company.