PLA News Releases

Major new Museum of London Docklands exhibition reveals the immense ‘hidden’ port we live and work alongside

The country’s first inland waterway continuing professional development (CPD) scheme has been launched by the Thames Skills Academy (TSA), the Company of Watermen & Lightermen (CWL) and the Port of London Authority (PLA).

Steven Clapperton has been appointed director of marine operations at the Port of London Authority, the body responsible for running the UK’s largest port and busiest inland waterway, the tidal Thames.

As the schools break up and families prepare to head for domestic attractions, rather than foreign beaches, due to the pandemic, the Tidal Thames Water Safety Forum is keen to alert all river users to the need to prepare fully and stay alert, when on or by the tidal Thames.

Brandon Cripps, from Hoo in Kent, has secured a contract with the Port of London Authority, just two months into a temporary placement, funded by the government’s Kickstart programme, designed to help unemployed young people build long-term careers.

The Port of London Authority is urging anyone with an interest in the tidal Thames to get online and share their views on the future of the tidal Thames, with just seven days until its initial engagement period on the river development framework closes.

Robert Courts MP meets workers who have helped kept trade flowing through the UK’s biggest port during the pandemic.

Port of London Authority (PLA) corporate affairs and strategy director, Alistair Gale, looks at the building blocks in place for the Thames’s cleaner future and invites you to have your say on the Thames in 2050.

A rise in drowning figures has prompted the Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK) to encourage parents to teach their children how to stay safe and enjoy water safely this summer, as part of its national Drowning Prevention Week campaign, 19-26 June 2021.