In 2010, PIANC will celebrate 125 years of existence. PIANC will organise special activities on four continents to commemorate this event. One of the proposed activities is writing of a book on the history of the Association. A special task force has been assigned to carry out this job.

The principal aim of this book is to give a broad outline of the development of PIANC as an international, non-governmental Association involved with navigation, ports and waterways, seen in the context of contemporary technical developments. The objective of the book also is to record and to disseminate the knowledge about PIANC’s long and rich history and, at the same time, promote PIANC as one of the world’s leading technical Associations. The book will be in full-color, richly illustrated and in separate editions in the English and French language.

At the occasion of its 100th birthday in 1985, PIANC published the book ‘Centenary of the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, 1885-1985’. Apart from the fact that PIANC added another 25 years to its history, the book is too bulky and too technical to be attractive for readers outside the PIANC-membership.

It is the intention to send the book to all PIANC-members for free. Corporate members are invited to sponsor. Sponsors will be recorded and honoured in an appropiate way. Please contact the chairman of the task force Dr. J.U. Brolsma at pianc@rws.nl.

·         PowerPoint presentation
April 2007

·         Download the logo of the 125^th anniversary

·         6^th Argentinian Congress of Port Engineering, in the framework of PIANC’s 125^th anniversary, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 5-7 April 2010

Download the flyer: Spanish: front – back / English: front – back

Click here for the Buenos Aires Declaration (Spanish)

·         PIANC 125^th anniversary celebration in Nagoya, Japan, 11-14 September 2010.

Jolke Brolsma,
Chairman of 'PIANC HisCom'.