Port Authority - United Kingdom

United Kingdom

In the United Kingdom operators of ports and harbours become de facto Port Authorities under several pieces of legislation. Examples include the:-

  • Mersey Docks and Harbour Company
  • Port of London Authority

Read more about this topic:  Port Authority

Famous quotes containing the words united and/or kingdom:

    “The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    “Then people will come from east and west, from north and south, and will eat in the kingdom of God.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Luke 13:29.