PLA News Releases
2021
![Smarter navigational technology for a busier river](/assets/vts-rs-comms-system-2000x.jpg)
State-of-the-art, air traffic control communication technology, developed by Rohde & Schwarz, is helping the Port of London Authority improve navigational safety of visiting vessels on the tidal river Thames.
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Volunteer projects tackling litter and invasive non-native species (INNS) on the tidal Thames are getting a helping hand from our new Environment Fund.
Read more![Environment Fund winners announced](/assets/whale-company-paddle-and-pick-960x.png)
Construction teams are busy preparing two east London wharves to return to operation in 2022, in a £2.6 million programme of essential improvement works for the Port of London Authority (PLA).
Read more![Latest PLA investment prepares east London wharves for return to operation](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/julespipe2019.jpg)
Major building works at the UK’s largest grain terminal at the Port of Tilbury reaches a milestone with the construction of ten new giant metal grain silos. The works got underway earlier this year following a fire* in 2020 which damaged part of the concrete silo.
Read more![Tilbury’s Grain Terminal completes metal silo rebuild](https://www.forthports.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Tilbury-Grain-Terminal-1-1484x834.jpg)
River charity Thames21 has today released data showing a mound created by wet wipes, which has grown to the size of two tennis courts and over a metre tall in the past six years.
Read more![Laser scans show devastating impact of wet wipes on the Thames](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/seriousissue.jpg)
Two “kickstarter” trainees have secured longer-term contracts with the Port of London Authority (PLA). Following six-month placements as part of the governments Kickstart scheme, Enrik Hoxha, from Gravesend, and Sean Holdforth, from Welling, are both now on the PLA’s payroll.
Read more![River Thames careers kickstarted](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/img1031.jpg)
A range of financial incentives which make it economically attractive for businesses to locate at Thames Freeport will apply from today (19 November).
Read more![Financial incentives for businesses to locate at Thames Freeport start today](https://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/freeportcontainers.jpg)
The romance between one of the Port of London’s first female police officers and a former chief planning officer at Havering Council has been revealed, thanks to a new exhibition at the Museum of London Docklands.
Read more![A port romance revealed](https://www.pla.co.uk/assets/evelyn-and-frank-wedding-1000x.jpg)
Robin Mortimer, chief executive of the Port of London Authority (PLA), is looking forward to the tidal River Thames playing its part in delivering Net Zero.
Read more![Bring on the river-lution!](http://server1.pla.co.uk/assets/imhcop262nov21mt19.jpg)
Esther Johnson, the designer responsible for gifts linked to a major new Port of London exhibition at Museum of London Docklands, took inspiration from her grandfather, a retired Port of London Authority (PLA) public relations officer.
Read more![Granddaughter’s designs for veteran PR man at new Port of London exhibition](/assets/keeping-it-in-the-family-2000x.jpg)