PIANC

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Benefits:

  • Join a worldwide network of fellow experts and professionals. PIANC is a global network of professionals, spanning over nearly 80 countries, providing members with unique opportunities for exchanging expertise and networking.
  • Benefit from more than a century of expertise. Founded in 1885, PIANC remains the longest standing organisation in its sector, offering an enduring legacy of technical knowledge.
  • Gain access to advanced technical information. Today, PIANC remains the forum of choice for experts wanting to gain access to state-of-the-art technical guidance in the field of maritime and inland navigation infrastructure and coastal engineering.
  • Share your knowledge and experience through working groups, commissions and national sections. PIANC offers many working groups for members to share know-how and experience, test ideas and trigger new initiatives.
  • Make your voice heard within the community and on the international scene. Gain access to the PIANC community worldwide, and take part in international and national events at reduced costs.
  • Use a unique springboard for Young Professionals. Young Professionals are officially represented in PIANC’s executive bodies through their own commission. With its annual PIANC De Paepe-Willems Award, PIANC also rewards young engineers with outstanding contributions to the development of waterbourne transport infrastructure.
  • Team up with public decision-makers. PIANC is a non-political source of technical information and guidance, which governments already use and implement in their policies and legislations. Government representatives play a leading role in the association.
  • Regular electronic bulletins with technical articles and news for the international waterbourne transport community.
  • Technical reports and guidelines based on international experience and best practice;
  • Opportunity to get personally involved in the study of navigation topics of international significance.