River Thames Shipping Since 2000: Cargo Shipping

Take a look at the River Thames in East London now and you would think that it is commercially dead. Where once the banks of the river were lined with wharves, these have been replaced by or converted to luxury apartments. The mighty London Docks, including the ‘Royals’, once the largest expanse of enclosed dockland in the world, had all closed by 1983 and have since been redeveloped as Docklands,...