PIANC News

Our PIANC AU-NZ Mentoring Program 2025/2026 is open now for application – as a mentor or as a mentee! This is a fantastic opportunity to engage directly with other PIANC

The proud LOC: L-R Luke Campbell, Ron Cox, Gildas Colleter, Paul Constance, Annabel Sandery, Jayne Hindle from East Coast Conferences, Andrew Pomeroy, Murray Townsend, Uddish Singh, Imran Lambay.  Absent from pic:

The following awards were presented at the Coasts & Ports 2025 Conference dinner on 20 August. Congratulations to all our winners. D.N. Foster Award In recognition of Doug Foster’s contribution

Photos from the Conference Dinner, Women in Geoscience & Engineering Function and Young Professionals Networking Event are now available to download. Photos will be available to download from our DropBox

New Zealand YP Section Holds First Leadership Breakfast Event in Christchurch The New Zealand PIANC Young Professionals (YP) Section recently held their first ‘Leadership Breakfast’ event in Christchurch (23rd July 2025).

Huge congratulations to PIANC AU-NZ’s Scott Keane for his recent appointment as a Vice-President to PIANC HQ’s Executive Committee (ExCom). ExCom is composed of the President, Secretary-General, four Vice-Presidents and

Congratulations and welcome to Mark Bennet who has taken on the role of PIANC Victoria Regional Chapter Chair, as inaugural Chair Laurence Benn steps down after six years of sterling

Presentations from the PIANC Brisbane Seminar 19 June 2025 on ‘Concrete Maintenance & Durability in Maritime Infrastructure’ are now available. Download all presentations here -combined file. Individual Presentations from PIANC QLD/NT

Welcome to David Ewers – our new Regional Chapter Chair Tasmania PIANC AU-NZ is delighted to welcome David Ewers as its new Tasmania Chair. A chartered Senior Structural / Maritime

It’s that time of the year again! Are you a PIANC Young Professional under the age of 40, doing some great original technical work? Apply for the PIANC De Paepe-Willems Award 2025 before 31 August 2024!

Renewed call out for members to join PIANC Working Group MarCom WG238 Guidelines for use of BIM (Building Information Modelling) in infrastructure for ports and waterways. The Chair of MarCom

A big shout out and huge thank you to Greg Fisk, one of the first climate champions appointed by PIANC in 2020, who this year is stepping down from the

New PIANC Working Group MarCom WG269 Design Guidelines for Offshore Wind Ports– call out for members.  About: The transition to renewable energy and the goal of energy independence highlights wind

PIANC AU-NZ is delighted to welcome our new Regional Chapter Chair for NSW, Sam Isaacs, Senior Project Manager at the Port Authority of NSW.  Sam took up the role from Catherine Blaine at the end

Image used from DIWA Copyright 2025 https://www.masterplandiwa.eu New PIANC InCom WG257 Digital Twins for Operation and Monitoring of Inland Waterways and Infrastructure – call out for members. Considering the complexities

Welcome to PIANC Aotearoa NZ’s new YP Deputy Chair, Jess Wood.  Jess is a proud ports and marine engineer based in Christchurch and has been working in WSP’s Ports and Marine

Inland Navigation Commission Working Group 266: Capacity Augmentation and Structural Expansion of Existing Inland Water Transport Facilities – call out for members. As the global economy and international trade continue

Environmental Commission Working Group 267: The Role of Waterborne Transport Infrastructure in Biodiversity Enhancement – call out for members. Increasing development of navigation infrastructure can also have an increasing impact on

At APAC Conference in Sydney, we interviewed a few active members around the regions about the challenges of the future and asked – is PIANC future-ready? Watch this video and

Above: Our Busy People: Some of the PIANC Board and Local Organising Committee at PIANC APAC – August 2024 PIANC AU-NZ Chair, Luke Campbell, looks back over 2024. The old

PIANC Call for members for InCom Working Groups WG262 Remote Operations and WG263 on Inmproving Governance for Inland Waterways – apply now!

PIANC Call for members for InCom Working Groups WG264 and WG265 on Inland Waterways Hydraulic Structures – apply now!

PIANC International Call for additional members for InCom WG 258 on ‘Design of Flexible Loading and Unloading Facilities for Inland Waterways Natural Rivers’.

PIANC AU-NZ Mentoring Program, open again for new participants. Apply now! Applications close 18 Oct 2024!

Six major PIANC AU-NZ awards were presented at the APAC2024 Conference dinner held at Sofitel Wentworth on August 29th. Congratulations to all our award winners!

Have a look at Video Highlights from PIANC’s APAC Conference 2024 held in Sydney 27-30 August! On our YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/@pianc_anz

Wonderful news that all past Coasts and Ports papers are now available to all through Informit. Fifty years of technical information now at your fingertips!

Seven remarkable new contributors are welcomed to the Board of PIANC AU-NZ as we farewell six legendary stalwarts.

PIANC AU-NZ Annual Report 2023 has been released. Find out more about our people, our activities and achievements in 2023!

We asked Andrew Brown, award-winning YP about his experiences at his very first PIANC World Congress, held in Cape Town April 2023