Dart Harbour & Navigation Authority

Dart Harbour is a Trust Port in South Devon. Includes the Towns of Dartmouth and Totnes – 10 miles of navigable river.

Dart Harbour is a Trust Port, a Competent Harbour Authority and a Local Lighthouse Authority. A Trust port is an independent not-for-profit statutory body created by an Act of Parliament.  It is run by an independent board for the benefit of its stakeholders and is governed by its own local legislation.  It is the role of the Executive, the Board and those working for the organisation, to safeguard and improve the port so that it continues to flourish for future generations. The Authority has about 1,600 permanent moorings in the harbour of which the vast majority are let on an annual basis, the Authority also provides a number of visitors’ moorings in Dartmouth and further upriver. The fees collected from these moorings and from harbour dues are used to fund improvements and provide services within the harbour.