PIANC Argentina

In 2005, the Argentinae Association of Port Engineers (AADIP - Asociación Argentina de Ingenieros Portuarios) started the procedure for becoming Qualifying Member. Formed in 1992, AADIP gathers distinguished members from the local port community. The Argentinae National Section was conformed in 2006, via AADIP, with a starting number of 35 members.

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Authorities
• First Delegate: Ing. Raúl Escalante
• Secretary: Ing. Sebastián García

Membership Argentina’s National Section has got 60 members:
• •56 Individual Members (26 of them are YP).
• •4 Corporate Members (Port of Buenos Aires, Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentinae Chamber of Pilots, National Hydrographic Service).

Organising Committee (IOC)

International Organising Committee (IOC)

• Raúl Escalante (chairman) – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• Louis Van Schel – PIANC Secretary General, Belgium
• Otto Schwetz, Corridor VII Chairman, Austria
• Jim McCarville – Port of Pittsburgh Commission, USA
• Sebastián García (secretary) – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• Pablo Arecco – PIANC YP-Com Chairman & Port of Rotterdam, Argentina (YP)
• Kelly Barnes – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
• Anne Cann – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
• Gernot Pauli - Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine (CCNR), France
• Marcelo Diez Peña – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• José Ramón Iribarren – Siport21, Spain
• Roland Höerner, EFIP - European Federation of Inland Ports, Austria
• Hélène Masliah-Gilkarov - Viadonau, Austria (YP)
• Johnny Wong – Panama Canal Authority, Panamá
• Craig E. Philip – Vanderbilt Center for Transportation Research (VECTOR), USA


Scientific Committee (SC)

• Raúl Lopardo (chairman) – National Institute of Water, Argentina
• Philippe Rigo – PIANC InCom CoChairman &University of Liège, Belgium
• Milou Wolters – PIANC Vice President & Rijkswaterstaat, the Netherlands
• Raúl Cáceres – Graduated School of Port Engineering, Argentina (YP)
• John Clarkson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, USA
• Michael Fastenbauer – Viadonau, Austria
• Rogelio Gordon, Panama Canal Authority, Panama
• Dale Miller – Tetra Tech, USA
• Jasna Muskatirovic – PIANC InCom Secretary & Plovput, Serbia
• Wu Peng – Planning & Design Institute for Water Transportation, China
• Marc Sas, IMDC - International Marine & Dredging Consultants, Belgium
• Juergen Trögl – Viadonau, Austria (YP)
• Tiedo Vellinga – Port of Rotterdam / TU Delft, the Netherlands
• Henk Verheij – TU Delft, the Netherlands
• Ian White – PIANC FinCom Chairman & Independent Consultant, United Kingdom


Local Organising Committee (LOC)

• Alberto Del Vecchio (chairman) – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• Sebastián García (secretary) – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• Marcos De Vincenzi – Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Ricardo Del Valle – National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco, Trelew, Argentina
• Marcelo Diez Peña – Argentinae Association of Port Engineers, Argentina
• Carlos Ginés – Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina
• Marcelo Peyregne – Port of Buenos Aires, Argentina
• Ricardo Schwarz – National Academy of Engineering, Argentina
• Francisco Weyland – Port of Bahía Blanca, Argentina