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·
Update EnviCom WG150 Sustainable Ports ·
Permanent
Task Group Climate Change ·
58th
RecCom Meeting ·
Other RecCom News ·
ODYSSEA –
Sea, the Harbour City, Its Port and Its Rural Territory ·
Join PIANC
YP-Com! ·
Third
Biennial PIANC YP-Com Technical Visit ·
Hochtief becomes
new Platinum Partner of PIANC ·
IAPH
Africa-Europe Regional Meeting ·
Dredging
2012 – Call for Abstracts ·
Smart
Rivers 2011 Conference – A Resounding Success ·
Just
Shipped ·
Publications
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Portonovo – Present
and Future of Port Water Quality Management in the EU Atlantic Area ·
2nd
International Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake
Geotechnical Engineering ·
Coastlab12
– International Conference on the Application of Physical Modelling to Port
and Coastal Protection |
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News from EnviCom |
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Update EnviCom WG150 Sustainable
Ports The joint PIANC-IAPH WG150 on Sustainable
Ports held its second meeting in the beginning of October 2011 at the Port of
Amsterdam office. During the meeting, six new members were welcomed: Port of
Los Angeles (USA) and Nigerian Ports Authorities as active members and the
ports of Ghent (Belgium), Bremen (Germany) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
and stakeholder APMT as corresponding members. Furthermore, several NGO’s
including WWF and EEB offered to advise the Working Group and comment on the
final reports. The two-day meeting focused on the review of
the preliminary texts produced in the past half year and on the drafting of
new texts for the final report. The new texts were generated by organising
several smaller theme-based Working Group sessions that each tackled a
specific issue (subchapter) of the report. This successful approach created a
sound basis for the actual report texts that will be developed further in the
coming months. Furthermore, WWF kindly participated on the first day of the
meeting and discussed their views and suggestions on development of
sustainable ports (long term vision, integrated system oriented approach). The Working Group will hold its third meeting
in March 2012 at the Port of Los Angeles, USA and aims to finalise the report
end of 2012. In the meantime, please feel free to contact us if you are
interested in submitting ideas or case studies for the report. Tiedo Vellinga (Chairman) T.Vellinga@portofrotterdam.com Kris de Craene (Co-chairman) Kris.Decraene@haven.antwerpen.be Daan Rijks (Secretary) D.C.Rijks@boskalis.nl Daan Rijks Secretary of EnviCom WG 150 Permanent Task Group Climate Change We
like to draw your attention to two very interesting websites concerning
climate change adaptation. The website of the French government publishes their
national climate adaptation plan in English: http://www.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/The-national-climate-change.html The European Environment
Agency gives an overview of all present climate adaptation strategies of the
European Union members on the following web address: René
Kolman PTG CC |
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News from RecCom |
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58th
RecCom Meeting The 58th RecCom
meeting was held in Paris, France, on October 19, 2011, thanks to the kind
hospitality of Geoffroy Caude
(France), former Chairman of MarCom and current
President of PIANC. Elio Ciralli
(Chairman of RecCom) welcomed new members from
Belgium (Kathleen Bernaert)
and Spain (Marius Tomè
i Covelo) and the invited guest speaker, Gregory Goddard, General Delegate of
the Fédération Française des
Ports de Plaisance.
58th RecCom meeting in Paris,
France – October 2011 (Click on image to enlarge) Mr Goddard presented
‘ODYSSEA – Culture & European Tourism. Sea, the Harbour City, its Port,
its Rural Territory, to Innovate in the Territorial European Projects with
the Maritime and River Harbour Cities’, an interesting European project
supported by the Fédération Française
des Ports de Plaisance. The project aims to promote
harbour and river cities federating the two economies of Sailing – water
sport – Tourism with Agriculture – Fishing – Viticulture. The goal – the
creation of a network of European harbour and river cities structured around
the items of nautical, culture, heritage and landscape, nature and discovery
and savours and art of living – in line with the goals presented in RecCom’s recently published position paper. The
presentation is available on the PIANC RecCom website. Elio Ciralli,
Fabiana Maccarini, Lars Odhe, Bob Nathan & Jessica
McIntyre RecCom Communication & Editing Committee Other RecCom News ·
The Development of the Marina Designer Diploma
Programme is underway. A draft business plan was discussed at the last RecCom meeting. A final business plan for the first
training session is planned for introduction to ExCom in February. ·
RecCom and ICOMIA continue mutual endorsement of
each organisation. As a result of RecCom’s
participation in the last ICOMIA meeting in May in Singapore, ICOMIA has
pledged to enhance its involvement in PIANC RecCom
Working Groups. In addition, ICOMIA endorsed RecCom’s
position paper and the development of the Marina Designer Diploma Programme. ·
RecCom Working Group 131 is collecting product
data for the ‘PIANC Catalogue of Prefabricated Marina Elements’ through the
end of the year. The invitation letter
and form are available on-line under ‘Publications Highlights’ on the PIANC home page or via http://www.pianc.org/edits/cataloguemarinaelements.htm. ·
Four candidates have been short-listed for the 2012
PIANC Marina Excellence Design Award (MEDA). The PIANC MEDA was created in
2002 in memory of the late John M. ‘Jack’ Nichol, Honorary Member of PIANC
and well-known marina designer. The
purpose of the Award is to recognise excellence in the design of modern
recreational boating facilities around the world. Marinas are evaluated on functionality,
aesthetics and environmental sustainability. The 2012 Winner will be
announced at the next AGA in May 2012. Check
the RecCom webpage for more RecCom news and upcoming events. The next meeting of
PIANC RecCom will be held in Brussels on February
1, 2012. Elio Ciralli,
Fabiana Maccarini, Lars Odhe, Bob Nathan & Jessica
McIntyre RecCom Communication & Editing Committee
The French Federation of Yacht Harbour (FFPP) counts 301 marinas in
France and has developed a territorial model of sustainable development ‘ODYSSEA’, which federates the harbour cities and their
hinterland. Maritime ports and cities are at the origin of our civilisation. Rural
territories do not capitalise enough of the economy generated by costal
tourism. ODYSSEA offers a new territorial sustainable model of nautical and
cultural tourism development. As a new European and Mediterranean routes ‘Sea
& Rivers’ concept, ODYSSEA proposes innovative tools and a practical Web
platform which network Euro-Mediterranean harbour towns and
geo-localise ports present, services, products and all local resources with
thematic stopovers in urban areas and the hinterland (approximately one
hour drive from the harbour). Four sets of themes of stopovers are proposed at the harbour master’s
office, at the maritime cultural counter and at the tourist office: ·
Nautical
theme ·
Savours
and art of living ·
Culture,
heritage and landscapes ·
Nature and
discovery All databases are open sources and their content is managed by local
actors (cities and regions). New equipment narrates the landscape to make harbour office and
tourist office innovating sites for tourist information, such as: ·
An
interactive website ·
A web
tourist guide and virtual visit ‘Geodyssea’ ·
A land vision
narrated landscape ·
A sea
vision narrated landscape ·
An
interpretation table ·
A download
site and audioguide telephone system and embedded
MP3 The territorial model is to register ODYSSEA as the cultural routes
‘Sea & Rivers’ in the great cultural routes of the Council of Europe,
such as the roads of Santiago de Compostela, as the
first Euro-Mediterranean cultural route which connects harbour cities and
their hinterlands. ODYSSEA’s projects benefit from European subsidies up to 75 % in the
framework of: ·
State,
Region, Europe planning contracts ·
The
European programme for territorial co-operation ODYSSEA considers the harbour as an open window to the territory,
structures new offers by integrating the sea, the harbours and their
hinterlands and federates two essential economies for Euro-Mediterranean
which are sailing, water sport and tourism with agriculture, fishing and
viticulture. For a glance at the presentation and video that were presented during
the last RecCom meeting, please visit the RecCom website. Gregory
Goddard French Federation of Yacht Harbour |
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Join PIANC YP-Com!
Want to learn more? Please join us at an upcoming event and on LinkedIn.
For more information on YP-activities and YP-contacts within the Commissions
and National Sections, please visit the PIANC YP-Com webpage. Jessica McIntyre Secretary Third Biennial PIANC YP-Com Technical Visit On October 14,
2011 twenty Young Professionals from seven different countries (The Netherlands,
Belgium, Germany, France, Hungary, UK and Australia) visited Maasvlakte 2 for
the 3rd Biennial YP-Com Technical Visit. Maasvlakte 2, an
extension of the existing Maasvlakte, will create 1,000 hectares of space for
deepsea-related container transhipment, distribution and chemical industry.
Construction works started in 2008. End 2011, the land reclamation is near to
completion; the first quay wall (up to 25 m retaining height) is finished and
the works on the breakwater structure are in full progress. The visit was
hosted by YP The Netherlands (organised by Alice Clijncke). In the morning,
six presentations were held to cover the full spectrum of this challenging
project. Three experts of the Port of Rotterdam (Jan-Willem Koeman, Tiedo
Vellinga and Pieter Nordbeck)
elaborated on the innovative master planning proces, the environmental
aspects and monitoring, and the nautical design of the project. Following
lunch, Mark Moens, Ronnie Poot and Jasper Blauw of the Contractor PUMA (Boskalis and van Oord) gave
insight on the scope of the works, the design of the breakwater structure and
the land reclamation. The day ended with an extensive tour of the site. The
YPs set foot on the contours of this new part of the Dutch coastline and were
given a close look on the breakwater works with a view on the Blockbuster, an
E-crane, with a reach of 63 m for concrete blocks up to 45 tonnes. Thank you to our
sponsors for this excursion: Port of
Rotterdam Authority, PUMA (van Oord and Boskalis),
and PIANC The Netherlands. Your support helped us make this event a success.
YPs on the new Maasvlatke 2
Site: Alice Clijncke, Thijs de Boer, Tim Raaijmakers, Lutz
Schweter, Jan Willem Vreugdenhil,
Menno Fousert, Leonie van der Kuijl, Andrew Pomeroy, Alfred Roubos, Nina Fozein,
Arjan Mol and Ben de Sonneville (The Netherlands); Eric Fernagu (France); Wim
De Cock (Belgium); Rhys Jones
and Joel Bailey (Australia); Jamie Holmes (United Kingdom); Ingrid Dispert (Germany); Barbara Keri (Hungary) (Click on image to enlarge) Members of YP-Com
met at the World Port Centre in Rotterdam the day prior to the technical
visit this past October. Three new faces joined our meeting – Jamie Holmes representing the UK and Joel Bailey and Rhys Jones representing Australia. The discussion focused on
leadership opportunities within YP-Com, preparation of a general briefing documet
on YP-Com and PIANC for new National Sections and applying for continuing
education credit for professional registrations (i.e. engineers). YP-Com also
had a tour of Deltares facilities in Deflt and enjoyed dinner in the city of
Deflt that evening courtesy of Deltares. The YP-Com
meetings for 2012 will be held in Brussels the first week of February
concurrent with the other commission meetings and in Valencia, Spain in May
during the PIANC Mediterranean Days. Also, look for YP socials at COPEDEC in
Chennai in February and Mediterranean Days in May. Jessica McIntyre Secretary of YP-Com |
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Hochtief becomes new Platinum Partner of PIANC After a fruitful visit of PIANC Secretary-General Louis Van Schel to Hochtief
in Hamburg on December 15, 2011, PIANC is pleased to welcome them as a brand
new Platinum Partner! PIANC is very
happy to have Hochtief amongst its Platinum Partners and gives them a warm
welcome on board!
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(Click on images to enlarge) IAPH
Africa-Europe Regional Meeting On December 7, 2011 IAPH held its Africa-Europe Regional Meeting in Antwerp,
Belgium. PIANC President Geoffroy
Caude, as well as PIANC Secretary-General Louis Van Schel attended this event and they also had a meeting
with IAPH’s President Geraldine Knatz
and Secretary-General Susumu Naruse in
the framework of the MoU between PIANC and IAPH.
(Click on images to enlarge)
The fourth
specialty conference on dredging and dredged material disposal, Dredging
2012, will be held in San Diego, California, USA from October 22-25, 2012. It
has been almost ten years since the last meeting of this international forum
bringing together professionals and practitioners from developed and
developing areas of the world. Many
new issues have emerged and will be discussed and debated. Abstracts are being sought
regarding best practices and innovations in the field from North and South America,
Europe and Asia. The submission deadline is January 23, 2012. Visit http://dredging12.pianc.us/abstracts.cfm
for more information or to submit. Papers are not required. The theme of the conference is ‘40
Years of Dredging and Environmental Innovation’. Topics will include: • State of Engineering Practice • Dredging Contracting and Management Innovations • Environmental Dredging (Remediation/Restoration) • Safety • Current Engineering Dredging Research • Integrating Dredging and Dredged Material Reuse with Environmental
Restoration • Working with Nature • Site Characterisation and Survey • Sediment Resuspension/Residuals • Sustainable Sediment Management • Dredged Material Management • Ports/Navigation – Case Studies (Coastal/Inland) • Regulatory Challenges and Solutions Dredging
2012 is a four-day technical specialty conference organised
by PIANC USA and the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute of American
Society of Civil Engineers (COPRI ASCE). For more information, please visit http://dredging12.pianc.us or contact us at dredging@pianc.us. Kelly J. Barnes PIANC USA Deputy Secretary Smart Rivers 2011 Conference – A Resounding
Success
Reinhard
Pfliegl (AustriaTech (L)) and Jim
McCarville (Port of Pittsburgh Commission (R)) were honoured as ‘founding fathers’ of the Smart Rivers conference series. (Click on image to enlarge) This
international conference included nearly 100 technical presentations on a
diverse array of topics such as systems/technology, environmental management,
safe operations, service design and innovation, public policy and finance and
infrastructure and network management.
The main objective of the
conference was to analyse the latest trends in policy, technology and
innovation in the field inland waterway transportation. The opening plenary focused on the Inner Harbour
Navigation Canal (IHNC) Hurricane Surge Barrier in New Orleans, the largest
surge barrier of its kind if the world. Later in the week, conference
attendees had the opportunity to view the entire New Orleans Hurricane and
Story Risk Reduction System, including the IHNC Surge Barrier, on a technical
tour organised by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers New Orleans district. The luncheons featured keynote presentations
by Roland Hoerner,
President of the European Federation of Inland Port (EFIP), who discussed the
significant role of inland ports for hinterland transportation, and Felipe Menendez, CEO & President
of Ultrapetrol Ltd., who discussed the long term
prospects of the Hidrovia Region in South America.
The conference ended on a high note with a closing plenary keynote address by
RADM Roy Nash, Commander, 8th
U.S. Coast Guard District; a discussion of the future of Smart Rivers by Geoffroy Caude, President of PIANC
International; the signing of the Smart Rivers merger agreement and a look
ahead to Smart Rivers 2013. The Smart Rivers Conference organisers wanted
to enhance the conference experience for Young Professionals (YPs) and
students by providing them with opportunities to network with each other and
industry leaders. There were several events organised especially for the YPs
including a networking happy hour at the Red Fish Grill on the legendary
Bourbon Street! Over sixty young professionals participated in the conference
and PIANC USA was able to provide travel scholarships to support seven
students to participate in the conference. One civil engineering student from
the Technical University Budapest specialising in Hydraulic and Water
Resources Engineering remarked: “I had one of the best times of my life here!
I loved the conference, the community, and all the helpful people.”
(Click on images to enlarge) The conference had excellent support and
participation of the industry, with more than twenty exhibitors and sponsors
and more than thirty co-operating organisations. Industry participants, such
as Ingram Barge Company organised vessel tours and there were technical
visits to the U.S. Coast Guard Vessel Traffic Centre, the AEP River
Operations fleeting operations centre and Zennoh
Grain facility in Convent, Louisiana.
Several towboat and marine companies and the US
Coast Guard had vessels available for conference participants to tour during
one evening of the conference. Craig
Philip (L) of Ingram Barge Company organised the vessel tours. (Click on images to enlarge) The main conference was preceded by workshops
on Lock Operations Management Application (PIANC’s Working Group report),
Sediment Management Solutions for Ports and Waterways and Innovations in
Navigation Lock Design. In addition, the American Society of Transportation
and Logistics organised a full-day Yangtze-Mississippi Rivers Forum to
continue an ongoing dialogue between U.S. and
Chinese private and public entities regarding the use of inland waterways. Visit http://smart11.pianc.us to review PowerPoint presentations from the sessions and to see
photos of the conference. The next Smart Rivers Conference will take place in Liège (Belgium) and Maastricht (The Netherlands) on
September 23-27, 2013. Mark your
calendar! Kelly J. Barnes PIANC USA Deputy
The 2013 edition of
the PIANC Smart Rivers Conference will be held in the cities of Maastricht
(The Netherlands) and Liège (Belgium). This message was revealed at the
closure session of the 2011 edition of the Smart Rivers Conference in New
Orleans. It will be the 6th Smart Rivers Conference and the first
of its kind under the PIANC banner.
(Pictures by Jolke Brolsma – Click on images to
enlarge) The dates for the Conference are September 23-27,
2013. There will be two days for Commission and Working Group meetings,
followed by two Conference days with presentation of papers in three parallel
sessions. The PIANC Smart Rivers Conference 2013 will conclude with technical
excursions to destinations in The Netherlands, as well as in Belgium. A detailed programme with the time
schedule of the sessions will be put on the website in due time. The general
outline is: -
Monday September 23, 2013, Maastricht:
pre-conference Commission and Working Group meetings -
Tuesday September 24, 2013, Maastricht:
pre-conference Commission and Working Group meetings -
Wednesday September 25, 2013, Liège:
official opening, technical sessions -
Thursday September 26, 2013, Liège:
technical sessions, conference closure and banquet -
Friday September 27, 2013: technical tours to
Belgium and The Netherlands Moreover, there will be special
activities for Young Professionals in the programme. The call for abstracts and the
requirements for submission of abstracts are expected to be published in the
first months of 2012. Jolke Brolsma Member of the Smart Rivers 2013 LOC |
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Just
Shipped The following publications will be distributed to
the PIANC members in December 2011:
WG 115 (InCom Permanent WG 125): ‘Guidelines and Recommendations for River
Information Services (RIS)’ Publications Pipeline The following publications are expected to be published in January
2012: ·
PIANC E-Magazine ‘On Course’ 145 Save money by becoming a member of PIANC and
download ALL PIANC publications FOR FREE on the Members Only
password protected pages!!! |
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Portonovo – Present and Future of Port Water Quality Management
in the EU Atlantic Area The workshop ‘Portonovo –
Present and Future of Port Water Quality Management in the EU Atlantic Area’
will be held in Santander, Spain on February 9-10, 2012. The workshop will
host three sessions, two of them will be dedicated to invited speakers on
port management systems (Session 1) and the latest scientific and
technological progress related to port management activity (Session 3).
Session 2 will be open to researchers and technical professionals and
managers. Portonovo generates a transnational and multidisciplinary context in order to
address common problems and generate solutions in the field of port water
quality. Its ultimate goal is to install a Decision Support System (DSS) for
the management of the activities carried out in port waters along the
Atlantic Area. The results are disseminated through www.portonovoproject.org, open to
the general public and professionals acting as a ‘harbour water quality
observatory’. Please read the workshop brochure
for more information, or visit the Portonovo website to find out all about
the event. 2nd International Conference on
Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering The 2nd International
Conference on Performance-Based Design in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
will take place on May 28-30, 2012 in Taormina, Italy. The Conference is mainly dealing with the technical performance of
geotechnical systems. However, topics related to economical performance and
environmental performance of geotechnical systems are welcome. Please click here to
find out all there is to know about the Conference or visit the Conference website.
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Ghent
University and the Coastlab 2012 Organising and Scientific
Committees warmly invite you to attend Coastlab12, which will be held on
September 17-20, 2012. Coastlab 12 will be the
fourth edition of the Coastlab series of
international conferences after Porto (2006), Bari (2008) and Barcelona
(2010). For the first time the Coastlab conference
will be held in Central Europe. The host city of Ghent (Belgium) is a
historic and at the same time, modern vibrant Belgian city close to the North
Sea. Please
click here to
find the Call for Abstracts. More information can be found on the Conference website. Peter
Troch Conference
Chair Coastlab12 |
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