Tower Millennium Pier

The Tower Millennium Pier is a pier on the River Thames. It is located in central London near the Tower of London and Tower Bridge. An investor at this point existed for several centuries, the current investors from the year 2000.

The Millennium Tower is that it has both the Thames Clippers on the regular London route as well as a regular tourist trip and private charter boats. Operator of the pier is London River Services. She took over the investor after the construction of the current building of the Port of London Authority.

The investor was created as part of the Thames 2000 plan of the Greater London Authority, which wanted to enhance the river. In total, five new piers created for 18 million pounds in the city. The number of users of the river rose in the following years to a million per year to a total of six million passengers. In particular, the Tower Millennium Pier suffered a few years already often to overcrowding and confinement. A further extension of the pier was 2011/2012 in preparation for the Olympic Summer Games in 2012. Among other things, the investor was thereby extended by 30 meters, increasing its capacity by 25%.

From 2001, an E -class lifeboat of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was on the pier. This was the first time that the RNLI oversaw a river and no open water. In 2006 it moved to. Meanwhile, was the former Waterloo Pier to Tower Lifeboat Station were rebuilt. The new investor will have no further duties to fulfill in addition to the rescue of shipwrecked.