Annual General Assembly (AGA)

AGA 2025 - Busan, South-Korea

The Annual General Assembly will be held in Busan, South Korea from 13-16 May 2025.

For more information, please visit the website HERE!

AGA 2024 - Cape Town, South-Africa

The Annual General Assembly 2024 and the 35^th PIANC World Congress were held in Cape Town, South Africa.

PIANC would like to thank the Local Organising Committee and in particular its First Delegate, Mr Basil Ngcobo, for hosting these events and putting together this attractive programme.

AGA 2023 - Oslo, Norway

The AGA meeting was held on 25 May 2023 in Oslo, Norway
PIANC would like to thank the Local Organising Committee and in particular Mr Tore Lundestad, First Delegate of the Norwegian Section, for hosting this event and putting together a very attractive programme.

AGA 2022 - Liège, Belgium

The Annual General Assembly (AGA) took place in Liège, Belgium on the 1st of June 2022.

The delegates were hosted at the University of Liège for AGA meeting.

AGA 2019 - Kobe, Japan

Annual General Assembly from 3 to 7 June 2019 were held held in Kobe, Japan.
A special thank to the Local Organising Committee and in particular Mr Hiroyuki Geshi, First Delegate of the Japanese Section, for hosting this event and putting together the very attractive programme.

AGA 2018 - Panama City, Panama

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.

AGA 2017 - Cairns, Australia

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.

AGA 2016 - Bruges, Belgium

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 Darcysigned 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.