Dear PIANC Delegates,
We are pleased to announce that the AGA 2022 will take place in the city of Liège, Belgium on Thursday 2 June 2022.
Hope to see you all soon.
All meetings will take place at the University of Liège: Place du 20 Août 7, 4000 Liège
Day 1 - 30 May 2022
Day 2 - 1 June 2022
Day 3 - 2 June 2022
Day 4 - 3 June 2022
Ampsin-Neuville lock project.
With more than 8 million tonnes of goods per year, the locks at Ampsin-Neuville, on River Meuse, are the third in traffic on the Walloon waterways network. The old locks measuring 55 x 7.5 m and 136 x 16 m were saturated. They are being replaced by two new Class Vb (225 x 12.5 m) and VIb (225 x 25 m) locks. When completed end of 2023, this project will conclude the modernization to Class Vb of River Meuse from Namur to Liège. This project is worth to be visited due to the size of the new locks, but also to the complexity of the building on a narrow space between the existing weir on river side and road infrastructures on the bank side. At the time of the visit, the Vb lock is finished and in operation, while concreting of the upstream head of the large VIb lock will just start.
The Annual General Assembly (AGA) 2018 took place in Panama on 5 May 2018. Mr Caude welcomed all participants in Panama City and he thanked the Panamanian Delegation of PIANC for hosting this year’s AGA. The PIANC President also especially welcomed the new First Delegate of PIANC USA, Mr Rickey D. James, as well as the new First Delegate from South Korea, Mr Bumgou Kang.
On Monday 19 June 2017, the AGA meeting took place in the Hilton Hotel, gathering some 90 PIANC Delegates from all over the world.
First Delegate of PIANC Australia, Mr Neil Lawson, welcomed the participants and he thanked them all for having travelled all the way to Australia in order to make this another successful AGA meeting. Mr Chris Boland (CEO of Ports North), then took the floor, as to welcome the participants to the city of Cairns and to open the meeting.
On Wednesday May 18, 2016, the marvellous medieval Cloth Hall and Belfry of Bruges were the splendid meeting place for the 116 AGA Delegates, representing 24 PIANC Qualifying Members worldwide. Apart from the traditional items during the AGA, Ms Jo-Ellen Darcy signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of the PIANC-SMART Rivers 2017 Conference in Pittsburgh, USA. Moreover, the Italian, Spanish and French representatives signed the MoU of the upcoming editions of the PIANC Mediterranean Days (Med Days). Mr Matthew McCarty received the PIANC De Paepe-Willems Award 2016 with its paper entitled ‘Large Diameter FRP Monopile Systems for Ferry Berths’ and Mr Elio Ciralli (Chairman of RecCom) granted the Marina Excellence Design ‘Jack Nichol’ Award (MEDA) 2016 to Ms Roxie Comstock of Bellingham Marine for the Marina at Keppel Bay in Singapore.
| 2018 Panama City, Panama |
| 2017 Cairns, Australia |
| 2016 Bruges, Belgium |
| 2015 Porto, Portugel |
| 2014 San Francisco, USA |
| 2013 Marseille, France |
| 2012 Valencia, Spain |
| 2011 Berlin, Germany |
| 2010 Liverpool, UK |
| 2009 Helsinki, Finland |
| 2008 Beijing, China |
| 2007 Kochi, India |
| 2006 Estoril, Portugal |
| 2005 Charleston, South Carolina, USA |
| 2004 Fukuoka, Japan |
| 2003 Bergen, Norway |
| 2002 Sydney, Australia |
| 2001 Paris, France |
| 2000 London, UK |
| 1999 Ghent, Belgium |
| 1998 The Hague, The Netherlands |
| 1997 Venice, Italy |
| 1996 Durban, South Africa |
| 1995 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| 1994 Sevilla, Spain |
| 1993 Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1992 Valencia, Spain |
| 1991 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1990 Osaka, Japan |
| 1989 Munich, Germany |
| 1988 Stettin, Poland |
| 1987 Agadir, Morocco |
| 1986 Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 1985 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1984 Helsinki, Finland |
| 1983 Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 1982 Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 1981 Edinburgh, UK |
| 1980 Naples, Italy |
| 1979 Oslo, Norway |
| 1978 Tokyo, Japan |
| 1977 Leningrad, USSR |
| 1976 Washington, DC, USA |
| 1975 Hamburg, Germany |
| 1974 Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1973 Ottawa, Canada |
| 1972 Palermo, Italy |
| 1971 Madrid, Spain |
| 1970 Lisbon, Portugal |
| 1969 Paris, France |
| 1968 Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 1967 London, UK |
| 1966 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1965 Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1964 Basel, Switzerland |
| 1963 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1962 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1961 Baltimore, USA |
| 1960 Paris, France |
| 1959 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1958 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1957 London, UK |
| 1956 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1955 Paris, France |
| 1954 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1953 Rome, Italy |
| 1952 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1951 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1950 Brussels, Belgium |
| 1949 Lisbon, Portugal |
| 1948 Antwerpen, Belgium |
