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The PIANC USA award winner in 2009 receives a $1000 U.S. Savings Bond, an expense-paid trip to the 2009 PIANC USA Annual Meeting, and an individual membership in PIANC USA for five years. The PIANC USA award-winner will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2009 PIANC USA annual meeting, and an article summary will be published in the PIANC USA Quarterly Bulletin. The PIANC USA winner’s paper is forwarded for international competition in 2009. The international winner in 2009 receives a trip to the 2009 Annual General Assembly (AGA), which will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The international award-winner will be invited to present his/her paper at the 2009 AGA, and the paper will be published in the PIANC Magazine. The International award winner receives € 5000 and a five-year individual membership. The deadline for submitting paper abstracts for the 2009 contest is May 1, 2008, with technical paper submittals required by August 1, 2008. Please visit the PIANC USA website for more details on current activities of the organization (http://www.pianc.iwr.usace.army.mil), and the International PIANC website for information on qualifying for and preparing DePaepe-Willems papers for competition (http://www.pianc-aipcn.org). For more details contact Edmond Russo, Chair, Publications Committee, PIANC USA, at Email edmond.j.russo@usace.army.mil, Phone (601) 634-2067.  New EurOtop goes live February 2008 HR Wallingford and our EurOtop partners are pleased to announce the arrival of the EurOtop Calculation Tool. Developed to accompany the new European Overtopping Manual (EurOtop), published in August 2007. The Calculation Tools are freely available at http://www.overtopping-manual.com/calculation_tool.html. Funding for the development of both the Manual and Calculation tools was led by the UK’s Environment Agency, with additional substantial support from operational agencies in the Netherlands and Germany. Seawalls range from simple earth banks through to vertical concrete walls and more complex composite structures. For each of these structures a different method is needed to assess overtopping. Now, by applying the latest understanding of overtopping processes acquired from recent European research projects, a team led by HR Wallingford with partners in the Netherlands and Germany has produced a set of web-based Calculation Tools to help users determine overtopping predictions for each of these structures. This free to use tool lets users explore / establish overtopping predictions for embankments and dikes, rubble mound structures, vertical seawalls and breakwaters / structures. For further details contact: Dr. Tim Pullen, Senior Engineer, HR Wallingford, Tel: +44 (0)1491 822231, Fax: +44 (0)1491 832233, t.pullen@hrwallingford.co.uk or visit http://www.overtopping-manual.com.
The 500,000 milestone container was carrying nuts and dried fruits from Holland for a local company and was welcomed ashore by the port chairman Mr Patrick Traynor and the general manager of Europe Lines Mr Cameron McIntyre. Due to its success the current terminal is currently operating at close to capacity but the port company is in the process of developing a new deepsea unitised terminal at Bremore within the greater Dublin area. The new terminal, one of the largest port infrastructural projects ever undertaken in Ireland, will have an annual capacity of 400,000 Ro-Ro units and 350,000teu Lo-Lo units. The new terminal is expected to be operational in 2012. For further Information, contact Joan Wiseman, Drogheda Port Authority (joanwiseman@droghedaport.ie, tel +353 41 983 8378)
The group will take a broad look at all potential issues associated with climate change and navigation, suggesting a number of separate PIANC working groups to take a more detailed look at particular issues. It aims for an interim discussion document by the time of the second meeting at Wallingford in August 2007, and a final report in Spring 2008. The 7-10 core members of the Group have committed themselves to seeking evidence, views and concerns, at least within their own countries. Peter welcomes any information that members of PIANC and others involved in navigation care to send to him at pjh@hrwallingford.co.uk. Sponsored links
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The Mary Rose Trust is planning to build a stunning new museum in Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to house both Henry VIII's famous flagship and her priceless and unique collection of nearly 20,000 Tudor artefacts. The Mary Rose appeal has been launched to raise the £35 million required for the construction of this museum and to fund the final conservation phase of the ship and artefacts. Revenue costs will be met by ticket sales, trading and other services. Funding support of around £20 million is being sought from the Heritage Lottery Fund and other national and regional funding agencies which have supported the Mary Rose Trust in the past. The Mary Rose Appeal aims to raise the remaining £15 million through donations, sponsorship or loans from individuals, companies and trusts who are keen to be associated with this important maritime heritage. More details can be found on the Mary Rose website 
Drogheda
Port handled for the first time its 500,000 teu container in October 2007.
The port currently operates regular container services to Rotterdam and Oslo
from its Tom Roes Point facility, one of the most efficient and congestion
free unitised terminals in the country.
The
Working Group met in Grenoble in March and made significant advance with the
Report, which is progressing well. The Group visited the Sogreah laboratories,
where a model of the largest of the new locks for the proposed 106km Seine
Nord Canal was being tested. The lock includes five water-saving basins, and
will have a lift height of 30m. Most of the other six locks on this canal will
have lift heights of about 15m. The Group also visited the River Rhone, where
the locks were empty during their annual one-week closure for maintenance.
This allowed a detailed inspection of the complex filling and emptying systems
as well as the modern systems that have been installed to provide reliable
operations and control, and the equipment that protects the gates against ship
collisions. 
