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News releases on the latest Thames events.
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Tilbury’s London Container Terminal announces that Streamlines’ new Blue Stream weekly service will call at London’s major port from February, as part of a new service linking Northern Europe to and from the Caribbean, Central America and Florida.
Read more![Tilbury’s London Container Terminal secures new Caribbean service](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/seatradephoto.jpg)
![Bob Baker appointed Port of London Authority Chief Harbour Master](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/img1150.jpg)
UASC’s MV Al Muraykh has sailed to UK’s new premier hub port and logistics park carrying a world record 18,601 TEU.
Read more![New Year’s world record breaking ship arrives at DP World London Gateway Port](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/dpworldlondongatewayceosimonmoorewiththealmuraykh010116.jpeg)
Kings College School took home the first prize and £1000 in the Port of London Authority’s (PLA) annual Rowing Safety Awards at a ceremony at the school’s rowing club on Putney Embankment.
Read more![Kings College School takes home PLA Rowing Safety Award](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/dsc2987-small.jpg)
Use of the Thames could be transformed over the next 20 years, according to the latest Thames Vision publication issued today (Monday, 14 December 2015) by the Port of London Authority (PLA).
Read more![Thames set for major growth and improvement over the next two decades](/assets/visionsummary.jpg)
Short Sea shipping specialists MacAndrews and OPDR join their forces at London Container Terminal in Tilbury.
Read more![MacAndrews and OPDR consolidate their calls in the Southeast UK at Tilbury](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/macandrews-newssummaryimage.jpg)
With Thames passenger and freight statistics at record levels, the Port of London Authority (PLA) officially introduced its £7 million multi-purpose river maintenance vessel, London Titan, in a ceremony at Tower Pier today (Thursday, 3 December 2015).
Read more![£7 million river maintenance vessel ready for a busier Thames](/assets/londontitan1-2.jpg)
The Secretary of State for Transport, The Rt Hon. Patrick McLoughlin MP, has appointed Christopher Rodrigues CBE as chairman of the Board of the Port of London Authority (PLA) with effect from 1 January 2016.
Read more![Christopher Rodrigues appointed PLA Chairman](/assets/christopherrodriguessummary-1.jpg)
MBNA Thames Clippers’ new commuter boat, Galaxy, enters service as Plantation Wharf Pier opens, the 20th pier on their routes
Read more![Plantation Wharf Pier opens](/assets/pwpnormal-1.jpg)
The London Assembly passed a motion offering its wholehearted support to the Cleaner Thames campaign, calling on Londoners to ‘do the right’ thing and make sure their rubbish goes in the bin, not in the River Thames.
Read more![London Assembly backs Cleaner Thames campaign](/assets/plalitterprose15small-1.jpg)