PIANC News

PIANC ANZ has lost a great engineer, leader and mentor.

Video now available of PIANC NSW webinar August 2021 – The State of Ocean Energy in Australia, presented by three industry experts.

Video now available of Brisbane F2F and webinar – Technical Presentations: PLANNING FOR AUTOMATION OF CONTAINER TERMINALS. based on PIANC Working Group 208.

Feedback from members gives a strong thumbs up for PIANC ANZ but we’re not perfect yet!

Exciting news! Online videos of PIANC’s hybrid conference APAC2020 with all speakers and sessions including our seminar on “Nature-based Solutions for Coasts, Ports and Estuaries” are now available to all viewer! Check them out here.

PIANC ANZ’s successful mentoring program has begun its second year, with a launch in April 2021. “To me this is a critical role for senior engineers to undertake.”

As a not-for-profit organisation, our core purpose is to provide leadership in the field of waterborne transport infrastructure to advance the communities, economies and environments in Australia and New Zealand. To ensure we are delivering on this purpose and in the spirit of continuous improvement, we are keen to hear from our valuable members and interested colleagues.

PIANC De Paepe-Willems Award 2022 For this prestigious and generous PIANC International prize, young professionals (under 40) are invited to submit a paper on subjects

Planned calendar of 2021 events for PIANC WA Regional Chapter – sponsorship opportunities are available.

WG208 analyses state-of-the-art and best practices when planning for automation in container terminals. Congrats to all involved especially PIANC ANZ contributors Carsten Varming and Tom Condie!

The Regional Chapter Young Professional Representative role is a great opportunity to become more involved in PIANC, to develop your professional network and to advance your career!

In March PIANC ANZ Chair Will Glamore welcomed our 2021 Board Observers Anna Gudkov and Olivier Mineau to their first Board meeting.

Our achievements in 2020 are a testimony to the PIANC ANZ community’s resilience, enthusiasm, and commitment to shared goals and aims.

PIANC is calling for nominations from National Sections for a new MarCom Working Group. WG224 Planning of Fishing Ports will be an update of WG18. Apply to the PIANC ANZ Board by 15 Feb 2021.

PIANC is calling for nominations from National Sections for a new joint InCom/EnviCom Working Group. Sustainable Management of the Navigability of Free Flow Rivers. Apply to the PIANC ANZ Board by 29 Jan 2021.

We asked attendees to send in more pics from APAC2020, and you did! Feedback from the Symposium and the Conference has been very positive, both

THIS SEMINAR IS NOW AVAILABLE ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL

In recognition of the impressive work by our members, five major PIANC awards were presented at the APAC2020 Conference dinner on December 3.

Images from the APAC2020 Conference – presenters, participants, networking, field trips and award winners. If you want to share your Conference pics here, please send to support@pianc.org.au

230 people attended PIANC’s inaugural Asia Pacific conference “Port, harbour and recreational boating for today and tomorrow” held in Fremantle Dec 1-4 – of whom 120 were online attendees from eleven countries.

PIANC ANZ APAC2020 kicked off on 1 Dec with the pre-Conference symposium on “Nature Based Solutions for Coasts, Ports and Estuaries”.

YPCom changes – congratulations to ANZ YPs! Welcome to our new PIANC ANZ YPCom Chair, Claire Treeby. Claire grew up in the port city of

At the recent PIANC ANZ AGM we welcomed two new members to our Board, Laurence Benn and Jackie Spiteri. Laurence is Principal Engineer – Critical