PIANC News

PIANC A&NZ is actively seeking to increase its student membership and raise its profile and that of the ports, maritime and coastal industry amongst tertiary students.

Congratulations and welcome to our newest regional chapter – PIANC Tasmania!

Welcome our new Board Observers, Bia Adib and Iris Bua, who have joined us for 2022!

PIANC A&NZ welcomes Luke Campbell as new Chair, with a huge thank you to outgoing Chair Will Glamore.

In June 2022 we welcomed three new Board Members to the PIANC A&NZ team and farewelled two outgoing Board Members.

Warm congratulations to Libby Freeman, senior coastal engineer at Advisian, the 2022 winner of PIANC’s prestigious De Paepe-Willems Award.

We continued our work on increasing diversity in PIANC by celebrating the inaugural International Day for Women in Maritime on Wed 18th May in Fremantle, WA. An inspiring panel of women shared their stories, experiences, and

PIANC A&NZ welcomes our latest new corporate members Salix and Sealite!

Congratulations to Coasts & Ports 2021 organisers, participants and award winners

PIANC A&NZ 2021 Annual Report has been released. Full of information about a year of innovations and solid growth.

MarCom WG 145: Berthing velocity analysis of seagoing vessels over 30,000 dwt (2022) has been released!

PIANC’s ‘Managing Climate Change Uncertainties in Selecting, Designing and Evaluating Options for Resilient Navigation Infrastructure’ has been released.

The Resilience Shift, PIANC and Navigating a Changing Climate were delighted to announce in November 2021 that The Resilience Shift will play a lead role in the Navigating a Changing Climate partnership during its

Presentations are now available from the PIANC Northern Chapter/ EA joint event on 14 March 2022 which featured infrastructure developments at Queensland’s Port of Mackay. NQBP has recently completed the

Group.  InCom WG242- Permanent Floating Houses Along The Inland Waterway Banks And Infrastructure.

Dedicated to the memory of the late Peter Fountain, who championed the establishment of this Working Group, WG240 Guidance For Ports In Small Island Countries has begun its important work.

Apply for the PIANC Mentoring Program now! Mentors and mentees very welcome! Meaningful professional and career development, opportunity to reflect on goals and practices.

Our achievements and events in 2021 are a testimony to the PIANC A&NZ community’s continuing resilience, enthusiasm, and commitment, despite everything!

PIANC Australia & New Zealand welcomes young professionals in our industry – practitioners and researchers in the ports, maritime and coastal environments

Our aim is to develop a series of specific, measurable, achievable and relevant PIANC ANZ targets that will form our PIANC ANZ SDG Strategy.

This was the first of a future series of events supporting women in our industry by building our networks.

Learn about this complex channel deepening project in Far North Queensland with insight from the consultant and the contractor’s perspective.

PIANC ANZ has created a three minute video to share just who we are, what PIANC is all about, and why you should join us!

Celebrating our LinkedIn No 1000! Turns out Neville Anne Berard is a PIANC cousin – a Young Professional busy helping PIANC Canada build its membership.

PIANC ANZ’s regional chapters have recently hosted very successful networking events in Darwin and Perth.

Coasts & Ports 2021 has been postponed to 10th to 13th April 2022 – and it will be held on these new dates regardless!

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!