KHM Portsmouth Re-issued Standing LNTMs, General Directions and Navigational Warnings
Published 11:55 on 9 Jan 2026
KHM has issued or re-issued a number of Navigational Warnings and General Directions.
LNTMs are as follows:
1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the King's Harbour Master Portsmouth that the following Local Notices to Mariners have been re-issued and will remain extant until further notice. Copies of the LNTMs can be found on the KHM Portsmouth website at the following link: https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/khm/portsmouth/local-notices
2. The standing LNTMs are as follows:
LNTM 02/26 Dockyard Port of Portsmouth and the Port of Southampton - Traffic Control and VHF Communications in The Solent
LNTM 03/26 Risk Assessment of Recreational Events
LNTM 04/26 Safety Points for Recreational Vessels, RIBs and Other Fast Craft in the Solent
LNTM 05/26 Pilotage Act 1987 Portsmouth Competent Harbour Authority Compulsory Pilotage and Pilot Boarding Points
LNTM 06/26 Fast Transits of the harbour by military small craft
LNTM 07/26 Portsmouth Harbour - Cold Moves within HM Naval Base Portsmouth
LNTM 08/26 Vessels constrained by their draught or who can safely navigate only within a narrow channel or fairway
LNTM 09/26 Video Surveillance and Telephone Recording
LNTM 10/26 Cross Solent Swims
LNTM 11/26 Mooring lines at Oil Fuel Jetty
LNTM 12/26 Use of weighted heaving lines in mooring operations
LNTM 13/26 Transit of the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth by Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers.
LNTM 14/26 Latest guidance for pleasure vessels departing and arriving in the UK
LNTM 15/26 Autonomous Vessel operations in the Dockyard Port of Portsmouth
LNTM 16/26 Sanctions on Russian owned or operated vessels
LNTM 17/26 Pilot Exemption Certificate Holders visits to KHM Harbour Control Portsmouth CHA
LNTM 18/26 Non-Routine Towage events within Dockyard Port of Portsmouth
LNTM 19/26 Voluntary No Anchor Zone Osborne bay Isle of Wight
LNTM 20/26 Ryde Pier Maintenance Work
LNTM 21/26 Transfer of Liquified Natural Gas Bunkers - Portsmouth International Port
LNTM 22/26 MOD Vessels Operating in Excess of the Speed Limit
LNTM 23/26 Speed Restrictions - HM Naval Base Portsmouth
LNTM 24/26 Unauthorised Access to Spitbank Fort
LNTM 25/26 Passing Vessels At Anchor Guidance for large vessels
LNTM 26/26 Maintenance Works - Gosport Ferry Pontoon
LNTM 27/26 Uncrewed Surface Vessel Ops 15 Dec 2025 31 Mar 2026
LNTM 28/25 Southsea Coastal Flood Defence works
3. Cancel this LNTM on 31 December 2026.
Last updated 12:11 on 9 January 2026