Notice to Mariners

2006
            Port-wide
6          Amendment to Code of Practice for Ship Towage Operations on the Thames 2005.

            Upper District

U6       Mortlake Reach - Kew Shoal

            Middle District
M1       Battersea Shoal – Channel Alignment.

2007   

            Port-wide
7          Regulations for the Opening and Shutting of Tower Bridge
11        Code of Practice for the Safe Mooring of Vessels on the Thames 2003 - Amendment to             Section Five.
13        Code of Practice for Ship Towage Operations on the Thames 2005 - Amendment to Section

            Upper District
U14     Barn Elms, Corney, Mortlake and Syon Reach Navigation Buoys

            Middle District
M21    Saundersness Shoal – Reduced Depths

            Lower District
L13     River Thames.  Sea Reach – Deployment of Oceanographic Monitoring Equipment

2008

            Port-wide
4          Thames AIS - Persons On-board Reporting
7          Saundersness Shoal.  Blackwall Reach – Reduced Depths
9          Upper Pool.  Tower Bridge – Redecoration
13        New Waste Transfer Jetty for Riverside Resource Recovery Ltd
17        Pilotage Exemption Certificate and Local Navigation Certificate Assessments

            Middle District
M7       Kings Reach.  Southwark Bridge – Redecoration
M33     Kings Reach.  Blackfriars Railway Bridge - Refurbishment & Construction of a New Station             on the Bridge.

            Lower District

L9        Oceanographic monitoring equipment on the Mucking Flats
L12      Construction of the Gunfleet Sands 1 & 2 Offshore Wind Farm and Establishment of 500 metre Safety Zone around the site
L13      Establishment of Environmental Monitoring stations between London Gateway Site, Maplin Sands & Oaze Restricted Areas
L19      Bathymetric Surveys in the Thames Estuary from Shellhaven to Sunk
L20      River Thames.  Sea Reach – Construction of Petroleum Jetty
L21      Thames Estuary - Radio Reporting Point Changes 2009
L22      Vessel Traffic Management in the Knock John Channel - Changes in Respect of Revised             Vessel Reporting Points
L23      Thames Estuary – Radio Reporting Requirements

2009

            Port-wide
2          Code of Practice for Craft Towage Operations on the Thames 2007.  Amendments to         Section 7 and 8
8          Bow Creek.  Regulation of Navigation – River Thames to Three Mills Lock
12        Lower Pool to Wandsworth Reach – Advisory 12 Knot Speed Limit
13        Maintenance of Vessel Moorings, Wash and Draw-Off
16        Operational Berth Names
17        Search and Rescue Responsibilities and Arrangements for the Tidal Thames
20        Woolwich Reach – Thames Barrier Closures – Environment Agency Amended Programme             No.54
21        High Speed Craft  - Flashing Amber Lights
22        A New Publication – ‘Mariners’ Guide to Bridges on the Tidal Thames’
25        Demolition of Renton and Borax Timber Wharves
24        Improving Visibility of Small Recreational Craft at Night
26        Richmond Lock – New Charging Regime
27        Routine VTS Broadcasts
28        P1 PLA Emergency Plans and Procedures

            Upper District
U14     Barking to Barn Elms Reach.  Bore Hole Survey
U24     Rules for navigation of Vessels Under Oars on the Tidal Thames
U25     United Hospital and University of London Winter Regattas
U26     Mortlake Revetment Repair Work
U29     Dragon Boat Racing

            Middle District
M14    Barking to Barn Elms Reach – Bore Hole Survey
M28    Limehouse and Bugsbys Reaches – Blue Lights on Mooring Buoys
M48    Wandsworth Reach – Silt Removal – Hurlingham Lake
M51    Lambeth Reach – Borehole Drilling – Waterloo pier
M52    Kings Reach – Southwark Road Bridge
M53     Waterloo Bridge No.3 – Closure and Reduced Height

            Lower District
L2       River Thames Sea Reach – Construction of Petroleum Jetty
L3       River Thames – Mucking, Sea Reach and the Oaze Environmental Monitoring Buoys
L5       River Thames Sea Reach – Establishment of Navigational Buoys
L6       River Thames – Mucking, Sea Reach and the Oaze Environmental Monitoring Buoys
L8       London Arrival/Departure Arc – VTS Reporting Procedures
L11     Vessel Traffic Management in the Princes Channel
L12     River Thames Sea Reach – Vessels swinging off The Havens – Coordination of vessel Traffic
L13     River Thames Sea Reach – Shellhaven – Installation of Monitoring Equipment
L19     North East Spit – Prohibited Anchorage Area
L20     Nore Sand & Oaze Deep – Submarine Cable Installation operations
L23     Mucking Sea Reach and the Oaze Environment Monitoring Buoys
L26     Site of Tilbury Repair Jetty – Temporary Buoyage
L32     Thames Estuary Longsand & Knockdeep London Array Geotechnical Survey Work
L33     Benfleet Creek Flood Barrier Closure
L34     Gravesend Reach – Borehole Operations off Town Pier
L35     Gravesend Reach – Obstructions off of Bevans Wharf

Note:      All other Notices to Mariners issued prior to this date are self-cancelling or sufficiently promulgated.
Notices of a permanent nature are available in booklet form: ‘Permanent Notices to Mariners 2008’ copies of which may be obtained in the near future by sending a suitable stamped and addressed envelope to the address below.

Copies of all current and permanent Notices to Mariners, Byelaws and Directions may also be viewed and/or downloaded from the PLA’s website at ‘www.portoflondon.co.uk’, under  ‘Maritime’/ ‘Regulatory’.

Attention is drawn to the Port of London Authority Handbook of Tide Tables for 2009 and the Hourly Tide Tables for 2009 for Walton-on-the-Naze, Margate, Southend, Coryton, Tilbury, North Woolwich and London Bridge. Copies of these tables can also be obtained from the address below.

All times of tidal and astronomical predictions are in Greenwich Mean Time and will need to be adjusted, by the addition of one hour,  from 0100 29^th  March, 2009 to 0100 25^th  October, 2009 whilst British Summer Time is in force.