ABOUT US About The Dart Harbour & Navigation Authority
The Dart Harbour and Navigation Authority is a Trust Port, a Competent Harbour Authority and a Local Lighthouse Authority. A Trust Port is an independent not-for-profit statutory body established by Act of Parliament. Competent Harbour Authorities are expected to maintain a pilotage service and can make pilotage directions including making pilotage compulsory. Local Lighthouse Authorities can establish navigation marks within their area of jurisdiction and must maintain these to required standards.
All navigation marks are inspected annually by a Trinity House inspector. Trust Ports are run by independent boards, the members of which are selected for the expertise they bring to the Authority. Board members are expected to support the executive in carrying out the duties placed on the port by central government and lend their expertise to the Authority for this purpose.
The Authority is charged with the safety of navigation within Dart Harbour, and is permitted
to establish moorings within the harbour and to license others, with some restrictions, to do the same. Other statutory duties are to be prepared for incidents such as the clean up of any oil spills. The Harbour also has a waste disposal plan in place. As a Statutory Harbour, the Authority can enforce national legislation and make and enforce byelaws. This is what harbour dues pay for and why they are levied on all craſt in the harbour.
The Authority has about 1,600 permanent moorings in the harbour. The vast majority are let on an annual basis to craſt kept by their owners in the harbour. The Authority also provides a number of visitors’ moorings.
The fees collected from these moorings are used to fund improvements and provide services within the harbour, such as the yacht taxi, pontoons and additional river patrols under the user pays principle. Dart Harbour takes income solely from users of the river and no other source.
DHNA staff on board a vessel that was sinking on its mooring aſter moving it to a safe berth and pumping out fuel and contaminents to prevent a pollution incident occurring.
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