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Falklands’ government readies for a decision on a new deep sea port
After a year without any obvious movement on the idea of a new deep sea port for the Falkland Islands it seems that the idea is alive and well and being pursued, quietly in the background. The estimates for such a project vary up to £ 50, £ 60 million. Read full article
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Aug 22nd, 2011 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Lord Ton
Deep water port
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 02:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0- a good precursor to the further development of the oil industry, eco-tourism, and the defense of the interests of TFI.
A good and confident show of positive intent by the Falkland Islands Government.
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Not even the local Icelandic inbred, Porno Sven from Sweden or your sensitive Argentine cry baby can mistake that.
Who cares.In 180 years and all the money placed by uk,still the population is about 3000.
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Waste of money!!!
Anyway,let bankrupt uk and lady bug and co,foot the bill!!!
They are Sooo generous...
Congratulations, it´s a good news because with a deep sea port your island can develop an oil industry
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yup, who cares Malvinero, especially about what you think..
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0180 years and nothing to show for it? I don't think so. Firstly the Falklands are still not Argentine and that's priceless. Anyway, we never did spend a lot on the Falklands, especially not until you invaded in 1982. Since then we spend less than 1% of our entire defence budget on what is essentially a valuable training opportunity. Something we would need to do and pay for anyway, probably in somewhere like Norway or Canada.
Oh and if a new harbour is built, it will be paid for by the Falkland Islands and not the UK, so we wouldn't be wasting our money...
It will be built just in time,
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 07:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Then it can receive the new carrier, when it arrives.
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Go Falklands, go!
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The estimates for such a project vary up to £ 50, £ 60 million.” errr that's lots of pounds I don't think rioters and neds will be happy ...
Aug 22nd, 2011 - 11:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0£ 50, £ 60 million.” errr that's lots of pounds
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 08:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0errr not if you have shit loads of oil
“I don't think rioters and neds will be happy ...”
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Erm, it's Falkland Island money, not UK money, and there are no rioters and neds in the Falklands as far as I can make out...
Wot's a ned?
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 10:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ned is a derogatory term applied in Scotland to youths who wear casual sports clothes, with the stereotypical implication that they engage in hooliganism or petty criminality.
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 11:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Like a chav ?
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Or a yobbo?
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 12:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0surprised xbox knows what a ned is.
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 04:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0or a toe rag
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 08:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW, that pic is part of a flow test kit! Yep, the same one that came via Brazil. Thanks partner!!!
Aug 23rd, 2011 - 10:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The Islanders cannot and have no intention of paying anything to create a deep sea port because they cannot.
Aug 24th, 2011 - 09:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They are planning this port on the assumption that oil will be found in exportable quantities and if it is, then the Islanders will simply tell the oil companies to pay for the new port if they want to ship the oil out.
The Islanders did exactly the same thing with the fishing when britain imposed a licensed fishing zone around the Islands in 1986 - the islanders paid for nothing and invested in nothing. They simply sat back and screwed the fishing companies for license fees.
The islanders could have become like Iceland with fish processing, packing and exporting facilities which would have made them more financially secure in the long term - but as usual the bennies wanted everything for nothing....like the oil.
@19 fantazum2011,
Aug 25th, 2011 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0And we'll get it too, despite all your efforts.
Because it's ours & not yours. You could have had a share, but as you know, good old Néstor tore up the agreement. Pity. Your problemo.
fantazum - Only an idiot could refer to Iceland being a nation that is financially secure!
Aug 25th, 2011 - 10:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are sure living in a fantasy world!
fantazum
Aug 25th, 2011 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0Watch those double negatives old chap otherwise you'll disappear up your own arguments arse.
Iceland is a poor example for the reasons set out above, although I note unlike Argentina they are now preparing to pay off some of their debts.
#22: Argentina DID pay of some of its debts, but still left many people, agencies, companies and countries seriously out of pocket because it only paid back some of its debt.
Aug 25th, 2011 - 11:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0You could say it did its best in the dire straits in which it found itself/placed itself;
but its best was not good enough,
and now it finds itself facing the same horror again.
fanta #19,
what is so bad about getting the beneficiaries (the (oil) companies) from investing in the port facilities?
It is common practice around the world where the big movers of materiel, food, ore, etc, need upgraded/dedicated/specialist facicities.
The PPP Chinese companies do it in Brasil,
as does the multinational (ex-Brasilian) Vale S.A.,
and the car and cruise companies in Argentina, Uruguay, etc.
FROM: BE SERIOUS -
Aug 25th, 2011 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Fantazum - watch those double negatives old chap otherwise you'll disappear up your own argument's arse. Iceland is a poor example for the reasons set out above”.....
REALLY? THEN WHY WOULD THE PRESIDENT OF ICELAND SAY THIS TO THE BBC? -
“The president of Iceland Olafur Ragnar Grimsson told the BBC on 30th july 2011 that Icleand's economy is now growing faster than that of most other European countries and with a lower public sector deficit. Unemployment is falling and Iceland has just raised a billion dollars at favourable rates on the international market. ”
(HE HE)
Fantasy man - what ever a president says S&P rate iceland as BBB- (negative outlook).
Aug 25th, 2011 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I much prefer the UK's AAA (Stable outlook)!
At least Iceland is rated higher than Argentina though!
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Aug 25th, 2011 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Errr......... because he's President of Iceland perhaps.
@24fanta,
Aug 25th, 2011 - 10:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes, really.
-because he's politician.
12 hours ago
Aug 25th, 2011 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0DOW JONES NEWSWIRES
Iceland's annual inflation rate was unchanged in August bringing to a halt six straight months of increases, data showed Thursday.
Consumer prices in the Nordic country were up 5.0% on the year, the same level of increase as July, Statistics Iceland said.
On the month, consumer prices rose 0.3% in August, after climbing 0.1% in July.
Iceland's annual inflation rate has eased from a peak of 18.6% in January 2009 as the economy has gradually stabilized since the collapse of the nation's financial industry.
Earlier this month Iceland's central bank raised its key interest rate to try to keep a lid on rising inflation, which it said will pick up further in coming months and peak at 6.8% in the first quarter of next year.
-By Charles Duxbury, Dow Jones Newswires; +46-8-5451-3092; charles.duxbury@dowjones.com
Now you will tell me the wall st. journal and the dow jones are both telling lies....tsk tsk
sounds like a condom to me ...lol
Aug 25th, 2011 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0oh yes I forgot to mention that Iceland's rating was knocked back not because Iceland is a bad risk but because Iceland stuck a finger up to the financial terrorists that have the rest of the free world's economy in a death grip...it was simple spite
Aug 25th, 2011 - 11:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Fanatsy man - are those the same terrorists that saved the Icelandic economy? Warped sence of reality again? Yep you are certainly an Argie.
Aug 26th, 2011 - 06:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Iceland is finally paying up because it wants to join the EU.
Aug 26th, 2011 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They should pay up but they should not have been flash with their borrowed cash. If one borrows it is for real investment that pay dividends for future growth.
Aug 26th, 2011 - 03:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0meanwhile back in the falklands,
Aug 26th, 2011 - 07:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0where you will find [ports] in building
oil ready and waiting, the british falklands all ready for the big day,
and argie bloggers will missread the whole thing and go back to ice land lol.
this article's title should be as ;
Aug 27th, 2011 - 08:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0-- Falklands' government readies for a decision on a Mercosur membership -- !!
as long as argentina joins the EU,
Aug 27th, 2011 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and withdraws from Mercosur membership
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Aug 27th, 2011 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0what a slovenly comment !!
you mean [a loverly comment]
Aug 27th, 2011 - 08:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0after all who want to be in the EU,
Beef (#) Aug 26th, 2011 - 06:05 am
Aug 28th, 2011 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Fanatsy man - are those the same terrorists that saved the Icelandic economy? Warped sence of reality again? Yep you are certainly an Argie.
Excuse me?...lololol - Iceland wrote off its banks AND the debts and is now about to jail those responsible. While you britons have given away your future not only to save the banks but you also refunded every penny in tax those bankers ever paid to the british government for the last ten years - then handed then £300 billion so they could keep their jobs and carry on screwing you into the ground. hahahahah.
You should do what argentina did after 1998 when the bankers took us over and tried to rip the shirt from our backs....we took our country back. VIVA LA PATRIA !
You mean that you welched on your debts? tsk tsk. wait until you need a loan.
Aug 28th, 2011 - 09:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0No, I think that the IMF will again bale out Argentina from its coming crisis. It is in nobody's interest that it degenerates into the stone age.
Aug 28th, 2011 - 12:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But I think that - once bitten, twice shy - the terms will be tough and will be closely managed on a day to day basis.
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Aug 28th, 2011 - 06:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I couldn't care less.
They're gonna be bombed there anyway if they don't watch their step.
Argentina is a very expensive [or cheap]
Aug 28th, 2011 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0glass, just dropped from her masters grip,
just waiting to hit the floor and smash,
couldn't care less.
Aug 29th, 2011 - 04:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0They're gonna be bombed there anyway if they don't watch their step.
IDIIOT!!!
Argentina is a very expensive [or cheap]
glass, just dropped from her masters grip,
just waiting to hit the floor and smash
Anyway,let see somebody,who really understand economics,(was a millionaire at 35)
US investment guru Jim Rogers, who earlier in the week said sterling is finished, has told Sky News the financial system is a disaster and the future looks bleak because the UK does not have much to sell any more.
http://news.sky.com/home/video/15208029
GOOD BYE,LOOSERS!!!!
AHAHAHHAHHHHAHAH!!
BRAVO ARGENTINA!!!
@44 Malvinero1,
Aug 29th, 2011 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0But the Falklands will be, (wait for it, wait for it!!), RICH, RICH, RICH.
And poor old Argentina won't get a red cent.
Still, you can always go home to ltalia.
But the Falklands will be, (wait for it, wait for it!!), RICH, RICH, RICH.
Aug 29th, 2011 - 09:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0And poor old Argentina won't get a red cent.
Still, you can always go home to ltalia.
Really? Argentina looks much more promising than uk or Italy...
Do you read any newspaper?
Really? Too bad that Argentina's oil industry,looks Much better than the Malvinas
Are you getting any money from the Malvinas oil?
I think is just fool's oil....
Isolde: You are such a looser....Poor devil...Idiotic like beef and co.
Only a fool will bet to uk....
What's a looser?
Aug 29th, 2011 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't you mean loser you fool?
indorcrinated people only say what they are told to say,
Aug 29th, 2011 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0see what they are told to see,
@46Malvinero1,
Aug 30th, 2011 - 09:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0yes, really, my friend. Even without the oil we have a much higher standard of living than Argentina. So Malvinero, who is the loser?
l think, you.
amazing how certain words brings blank responds or repeats like the bbc,
Aug 30th, 2011 - 07:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0indocrinated-ICJ-the truth,
??? commers ?
Cat got your tongue, Malvinero1? or perhaps can't think of an answer?
Aug 31st, 2011 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0mmmmshe has gone from meow to prrrrr
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