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Listed below is a complete listing of our current news releases (by title).
Seaborne trade in London continued at more than 50 million tonnes for the seventh year in a row in 2007 with the Port handling a record number of containers and other 'unit'-like cargoes.
Read more![Thames Trade Up](/assets/Annual_Review_2007cut.jpg)
The Thames Training Alliance has awarded its first three-year training provider contract.
Read more![Thames Training Alliance awards first contract](/assets/TTA277.jpg)
The Port of London Authority (PLA) will be conducting a training exercise on the Thames in London tomorrow, testing how it would respond to an oil spill in the river.
Read more![Thames training exercise (Friday, 17 September 2021)](/assets/exercise-thames-turmoil-deployment-area.png)
The Port of London Authority’s Thames Vision project has won an award from the City livery company of the transport industry, the Worshipful Company of Carmen.
Read more![Thames Vision project wins award](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/carmenmansionhouseawardsbanquet9-small.jpg)
Four newly-qualified River Thames watermen will take to the river in central London at 2pm on Wednesday 4 September for the 2019 Doggett’s Coat and Badge Wager, the oldest rowing race in the world.
Read more![Thames watermen battle it out for historic rowing title](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/image004.jpg)
Thames River Watch will enable Londoners to get closer to the river and involved with understanding the health of the tidal Thames.
Read more![Thames21 Launches A New Citizen Science Project For The Tidal Thames](http://www.pla.co.uk/assets/thamesriverwatchlaunchevent2feb13webchs-277x220px-1.jpg)
Join Thames21 for a very special clean-up event on the Thames foreshore in Gravesend together with PLA volunteers we will clean up a part of the foreshore.
Read more![Thames21 Tenth Anniversary Clean-up Event with the PLA at Gravesend](/assets/lee-walker---arw7882---277-x-220px.png)