PLA News Releases

The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) has today (18 August 2021) started its formal consultation on a draft Port of London Authority (PLA) Harbour Revision Order (HRO).

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.

The Port of London Authority is working with property developers, London & Regional, and the Royal Docks Team to deliver the first new shipyard on the Thames for over a century at Albert Island in the London Borough of Newham.

An NHS trust has become the first in the country to pilot a daily riverboat delivery service as part of plans to reduce its carbon footprint.

The Port of London Authority (PLA) is inviting anyone with an interest in the tidal Thames to get involved and help shape Thames Vision 2050, an updated framework for development of the 95 miles of river from Teddington Lock to the North Sea

We have awarded a contract to model the future of energy demand and supply on the tidal Thames as we look to shape the zero carbon port for the future.

“Kickstarters”, recruited by the Gravesend-based Port of London Authority (PLA), as part of a Government scheme to help unemployed young people, travelled up the River Thames to meet the employment minister, Mims Davies MP, at Westminster (10 May).

Port of London Authority chairman, Christopher Rodrigues CBE has been appointed by the Secretary of State for Transport as the new non-executive chair of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA).