PIANC-COPEDEC XI
PIANC- COPEDEC XI
“Adapting coastal, ports and waterways infrastructure to a changing climate”
Sunday 21 to Friday 26 February 2027
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The International PIANC-COPEDEC XI Conference will take place at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM), Chennai, India.
Set in verdant wooded surroundings, the campus of IIT Madras (IITM) over an area of 2.5sq.km in the city of Chennai offers an ideal environment for the most stimulating research activities. The IITM campus is a self-contained township with all the facilities of a modern University. The conference will be held at the Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research (IC&SR) building of the Institute.
The success of the First International Conference on Coastal and Port Engineering in Developing Countries (COPEDEC), held in Colombo Sri Lanka in March 1983, resulted in the sub-sequent holding of this special conference series once every four years in a developing country.
Successful conferences were held in:
- Manilla, Phillippines (October 2023) – PROCEEDINGS
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (October 2016)
- Chennai, India (February 2012)
- Dubai, UAE (February 2008)
- Colombo, Sri Lanka (September 2003),
- Cape Town, South Africa (April 1999)
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (September 1995)
- Mombasa, Kenya (September 1991)
- Beijing, China (September 1987)
During the COPEDEC VI conference in Colombo, September 2003, a merger agreement between PIANC, the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure and COPEDEC was signed and consequent to this agreement, a new International Organizing Committee (IOC) was formed.
The active mission of the PIANC-COPEDEC Conferences is:
1.To provide an international forum where coastal and port engineers from developing coun-tries can exchange know-how and experience amongst themselves and with their col-leagues from industrialized countries;
2.To enable the developing countries to have a sustainable human resource pool of coastal and port development professionals.
The overall theme for COPEDEC is “Enhancing Waterborne Transport and Sustainable Coastal Development”
As with previous conferences, the emphasis on technical subjects remains. Papers will focus on practical applications, planning, management and environmental aspects of coastal, port and inland waterway engineering in developing and industrialized countries, including documentation of case studies.
