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    The Port of London Authority (PLA) is a self-funding public trust established on 31 March 1909 in accordance with the Port of London Act 1908 to govern...
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  • United States and Spain, a port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district...
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  • the largest port in the world, it was the United Kingdom's largest port as of 2020. Usage is largely governed by the Port of London Authority ("PLA"), a...
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    The Port of Tilbury is a port located on the River Thames at Tilbury in Essex, England. It serves as the principal port for London, as well as being the...
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    The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) is a federal government agency that governs and operates the ports of Nigeria. The major ports controlled by the NPA...
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    administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority. As one of the world's major global cities, London exerts...
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    Thames beyond Greater London, on the banks of south Essex (Thurrock) and north Kent. The Port of London Authority controls operations from its base in Gravesend...
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    The Port of London Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7. c. 68) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom, which established the Port of London Authority and regulated...
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    the former headquarters of the Port of London Authority and is thus also sometimes referred to as the Port of London Authority Building. Since 2017, it...
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  • originally formed in 1909 as the Port of London Police following Parliament's passing of the Port of London Authority Act 1908 on 21 December the previous...
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    City of London Corporation, officially and legally the Mayor and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of London, is the local authority of the City of London...
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    patron of the arts. It oversees the Barbican Centre and subsidises several important performing arts companies. The London Port Health Authority, which...
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    Steam tug Brent (category Port of London)
    the Ministry of War Transport. Completed too late to take part in the Second World War, she was sold in 1946 to the Port of London Authority and renamed...
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    districts: the 32 London boroughs, which form a ceremonial county also called Greater London, and the City of London. The Greater London Authority is responsible...
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    Port of London Authority v Payne [1993] EWCA Civ 26 is a UK labour law case, concerning unfair dismissal and the remedy of reinstatement. The Port of...
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    of West India Docks, a short walk from Canary Wharf. Much of the museum's collection is from the museum and archives of the Port of London Authority,...
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    Tideway (category Rivers of London)
    the Port of London, is managed by the Port of London Authority (PLA). The upstream limit of this authority is marked by an obelisk just short of Teddington...
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    Peter de Neumann (category British Merchant Navy personnel of World War II)
    Spithead Review and transferred to the Port of London Authority. He then put in place a feasibility study of a port-control system which he oversaw throughout...
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    MV Havengore (category Research vessels of the United Kingdom)
    survey launch, originally launched in 1956 for service with the Port of London Authority (PLA). After her withdrawal from service and sale in 1995, she...
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    and Greenwich. The docks were formerly part of the Port of London, at one time the world's largest port. After the docks closed, the area had become...
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    DP World London Gateway is a port within the wider Port of London, on the north bank of the River Thames in Thurrock, Essex. Opened in November 2013, the...
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    river forms part of the Port of London and navigation is administered by the Port of London Authority. Both the tidal river through London and the non-tidal...
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    Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually cold...
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  • north, through to Teddington a total of around 95 miles (153 km). Up until the 1980s the Port of London Authority (PLA) dockmasters were responsible for...
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  • 6 London transport portal Transport for London (February 2009). "Your guide to fares and tickets within Zones 1-6" (PDF). Greater London Authority. Archived...
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  • Port Authority was signed into law by Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy in 2014 to bring together the state's three deep-water ports of New London,...
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    Greater London and the surrounding area are calculated in accordance with the London fare zones system managed by Transport for London. Within London, all...
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    area of London, England, located near the Isle of Dogs in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Canary Wharf is defined by the Greater London Authority as...
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  • Heathrow Gatwick Stansted Luton City Southend The metropolitan area of London, England, United Kingdom, is served by six international airports and several...
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    Nore (category Sandbanks of England)
    and Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Until 1964 it marked the seaward limit of the Port of London Authority. As the sandbank was a major hazard...
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