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Greener ships calling on the tidal Thames will be entitled to a 10% reduction in conservancy charges, as the PLA prepares to launch the UK's first hybrid pilot cutter.
Read more![Doubling of green tariff discount to boost tidal Thames air quality in 2019](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/air.jpg)
The Port of London Authority (PLA) hosted 20 specialists from ports and incentive providers around the world recently, when the steering group for the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) met in London.
Read more![London hosts global port environment experts](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/groupesil.jpg)
Two guides to the Thames, newly published by the Port of London Authority (PLA), (7 December) are must-have Christmas gifts for all users of the river’s tidal stretches.
Read more![New Thames guides are river user must-haves for 2019](https://www.pla.co.uk/assets/launchofrecuserguideandtidestable2019.jpg)
Thurrock MP Jackie Doyle Price joined seafarers, port and shipping representatives at London Tilbury Seafarers Centre late last week for the official opening of the centre’s new £50,000 basketball court and sports area.
Read more![Thurrock MP opens New Tilbury Seafarers Centre basketball court](https://www.pla.co.uk/assets/tilburyseafarersall16111886.jpg)
The winners of river-inspired photography competition Thames Lens 2018 have been announced - and include this remarkable tidal Thames sunset scene.
Read more![Tidal Thames sunset gets PLA thumbs-up for Thames Lens 2018](https://www.pla.co.uk/assets/davidnichollsgreenwichduskplahighlycommended.jpg)
Heidi Alexander has named the latest addition to the PLA fleet of vessels that survey the bed of the tidal Thames, at a ceremony on Tower Pier.
Read more![New High-tech vessel Thame named by Deputy Mayor for Transport](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/thame3.jpg)
Public access to documents charting the history of the River Thames and London’s Docks over nearly 250 years has been secured for at least another decade - in a new agreement between the Port of London Authority (PLA) and the Museum of London.
Read more![New film celebrates extension of public access to unique river and docks archive](https://www.pla.co.uk/assets/181031fionakeateschristopherridriguesandmolchariman.jpg)
British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) and the Port of London Authority (PLA) are urging river users to steer clear of the beluga whale, which is currently in the Thames Estuary first spotted on 25 September 2018.
Read more![Update on whale in Thames near Gravesend](/new_site_assets/images/default_news.jpg)
Has growing public awareness of marine pollution made any difference to the levels of plastic discarded in the tidal River Thames in the heart of Britain’s capital city?
Read more![Rose's return: explorer back on river for update on Cleaner Thames campaign](/assets/paulroseandtanyaferryaboardtheplasdebriscollector.jpg)
Gravesend school children joined volunteers from the Port of London Authority (PLA), City of London Corporation and local fishermen this week (13 September) for the fourth annual Thames foreshore clear up at Denton.
Read more![Gravesend pupils get to grips with plastic pollution in the Thames](/assets/180913groupshot.jpg)