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South America cruise industry “must work together and rein in costs”
South America's cruise industry has been growing fast and holds vast potential, but the region must work together to tackle issues, create demand and rein in costs, said speakers at the Seatrade South America Cruise Convention in Buenos Aires. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCutting out the Falklands would be a good start, nowhere more prohibitively expensive to dock than there...
Sep 13th, 2012 - 03:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0:)
Argentina has such lovely writers and poets. Beyond. I wonder how they can incorporate that into a cruise.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is 'costs' a euphemism for 25% inflation? Inflation is a euphemism for self-preservation of the gov, at the expense of the people, by printing free money.
Anyways, the natural coastline seen from the ocean must be amazing.
@1 TiT
Sep 13th, 2012 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are so predictable - do you trolls take turns setting the Peronist positions?
BTW Peronist position is “doggy-style”, just ask Sussie !
LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!
BA is a great place for tourists!
It really is. The Peso is so low that everything is a bargain for tourists from the “Free World”
LOL LOL LOL
CFK will fall, but not before she takes YOUR pensions and millions of US $$$.
You wil be sitting in the ruins of a shattered Argentina and a ruined economy.
Meanwhile, keep up your “pirates” nonsense.
LOL LOL LOL
Check out this video on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fywBbhvxo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Chill out “tempest”, I was joking. I don't mind if ships go to the Falklands, never have.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 06:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0As for the Free world, Argentina does not want to be part of it. It has nothing good to offer.
#4
Sep 13th, 2012 - 08:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0So Argentina wants nothing to do with the free world. You will happily do without advances in medicine, transport, science etc etc.
It must be an Earthly paradise to forego all this. However, it's your choice - not I would venture the whole of the Argentinian population.
One can only assume Argentines don't want to be free. Rather handy since CFK is turning the whole country into a prison camp for anyone that doesn't have money to burn to get out.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 'Anyways, the natural coastline seen from the ocean must be amazing.' Nope... its as boring as batshit..... apart from Staten Island.....
Sep 13th, 2012 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 05. Don't try to be logical with Toby. He is not too bright, he thinks somehow Argentina will innovate and create more and better things than the in the civilized world if they were isolated. History will show him that Rgs are lazy, liars and thieves but it is new day under CFK!
Sep 13th, 2012 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0BTW he doesn't really care if people are dying because their medications are not imported. I wonder if he cares about clean teeth...you can't get dental supplies either hmmm
Your medicines, your poision you mean...? Which ties in very well with your “freedom”.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I read an interview last weekend from a couple of years ago... A hospital in the USA (Chicago) did a pilot program where it introduced sweeping changes to workplace conditions, food, wages, and benefits, all designed to encourage people to be healthier.
They actually succeeded, people became much healthier in an 18 month trial.
One problem: it made the hospital LOSE money because it lost lucrative beneficial contracts with private health insurance companies, which in turn were in bed with the top pharmaceuticals. They lost these because the government stopped subsidizing the both the insurance and pharmas, which in turn ceased making the hospital a preferential “client”.
So, the program was quietly ended, and employees once again became more ill, and more dependent on medicine. The hospital regained the subsidies, it could increase its “client base” (!), and thus get once again benefits from the private insurers and pharmas. The hospital increased net revenue and real profits.
So the hospital administrators and staff won, the private insurance cos. won, the pharmaceuticals won, the government won (the woman that lobbied for more subdidies won election)...
And they all did it at the expense of the lives of thousands of people they are purposefully killing.
Free society my arse. You people are a joke of a society.
@3. Troy-Tempest.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brilliant u-tube sketch, and I don`t speak Spanish !
I love how dim-witted Rgs always jump right to a conspiracy theory when they have nothing better to say.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If I didn't know better I would think the world was run by 13 families
hahahha
You are a slave, an unknowing addict, and a pawn of your government, and I'm the dimwit.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't worry, je ne t'en veux pas.
Tu me fais pitié.... Ich bedauere dich einfach.
@9 That sounds about right for the US medical system.
Sep 13th, 2012 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4 TiT
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“As for the Free world, Argentina does not want to be part of it. It has nothing good to offer.”
Another xenophobic stupid statement.
Back on topic,
With the next SeaTrade convention to be held in Chile in 2013, it looks like Chile is taking the lead in South America.
Chile won the SeaTrade award in 2012 - looks like they are being recognised for doing things right.
The Falklands will only expand their facilities for Cruise ships when they improve their docks and infrastructure for the lucrative oil industry.
And tourists will not face the currency exchange gouging like that of BA.
Viva Falklands !!
I heard “free healthcare” in Argentina is getting a little complicated since a lot of Clinics are no longer accepting insurance payments...hmm is it free, or prepaid or do you have to have insurance or just pay at the “good” clinics?
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Free” seems to have many meanings in Socialist countries....
BTW did CFK ever pay the 60MM she owes the dialysis clinics or have they given up with those all together?
@ 3
Sep 13th, 2012 - 04:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0why the stupid brits place all the blame on Sussie?
..... Because the brits are rubbish bloody english people!.......
Prince Harry is planning to move to America around the year 2014,
to Buenos Aires to play polo and Las Vegas to enjoy wild parties.
He likes America!
Good Boy!
#16
Sep 13th, 2012 - 07:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He may like America but what makes you think he likes Argentina - (which is in South America, a different continent).
I suppose he told you this personally ? Do you have a twitter account that he follows ?
#1
It may be, but think of the advantages, you don't have to deal with any Argentinians.
@16 sussie/ Propecia/2012 etc etc etc...
Sep 13th, 2012 - 11:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0YOU WROTE:
“@ 35
Sussie is my friend and no longer responding to the UK team comments.
The are more interesting things to do. She instructed Mercopress to block all comments.
Good Bye!”
WE REPLIED:
“and... THE BRITS WIN, AGAIN !!! WELL DONE, BRITS!!!!
LOL LOL LOL !!”
I hope one day there will be no desire to cut out the Falklands, after my government drops its arrogance and tries to be a good neighbour...
Sep 15th, 2012 - 08:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0#19
Sep 15th, 2012 - 09:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0I presume you mean the Argentinian government.
#20 No
Sep 16th, 2012 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We're trying to be good neighbours, it's old leatherface across the water that's being arrogant and ignorant.
Sep 17th, 2012 - 10:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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