PLA News Releases

Volunteer projects tackling litter and invasive non-native species (INNS) on the tidal Thames are getting a helping hand from our new Environment Fund.

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).

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.

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.

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.

A range of financial incentives which make it economically attractive for businesses to locate at Thames Freeport will apply from today (19 November).

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.

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.

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.