Business deals “above 600 million USD” in Chile’s naval and maritime expo

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The recent Exponaval 2010 and Transport 2010 exhibit held in the Chilean port of Valparaíso was described as a complete success by the organizers of the event that convened over 150 exhibitors, 34 foreign navies’ delegations and totalling business deals “above 600 million US dollars”. Read full article

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stick up your junta
Nasty cheap argie nails dont ya think think

HMS Gloucester was specially invited to participate of the Exponaval 2010 based on the long established historic links between the Royal Navy and its Chilean counterpart. Several surface units from the Chilean Navy were formerly Royal Navy frigates
Dec 05th, 2010 - 08:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Marcos Alejandro
Like HMS Glamorgan, badly damaged in Malvinas war. They plugged all the holes and sold it to Chile.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Glamorgan_(D19)
Dec 05th, 2010 - 10:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Beef
Apparantly the whole of South America is united against the British.

Chile invite the Royal Navy, Uruguay apologise to the UK for having to show a small guesture and Brazil dock a rig and ships going to the Islands. If that is evidence of unity then Argentina have very low standards.
Dec 05th, 2010 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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briton
And did argentina get an invite to this event, ha ha
Dec 05th, 2010 - 11:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Redhoyt
Mercopress do like to rub it in, don't they .... but then, who can blame them :-)
Dec 06th, 2010 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Rufus
As a matter of interest, has anyone heard any more about the prospective defence deal between Britain and Brazil on the development of the Type 26 frigate? Last I heard Australia was keen to get in on it as well as an eventual replacement for the ANZAC class.
Dec 06th, 2010 - 01:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Sergio Vega
It was a highly succesful fair and the presence of the invited representatives of our friends countries's navies give it a special taste, of course.
The HMS Gloucester meant the importance that our country in all level, but specially the Navy, have about the historic links between UK and Chile from the earlies times of our Independence. And it´s a significant show from our GVT to our neighbors that Chile will keep it in the future, despite the claims of Argentina over Falklands Islands sovereignity.
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