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  redp0ll

  Anyone any idea how the 8.1 million tons are shipped out for exports? By barge or by road tanker?

  Jul 09th, 2014 - 03:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Tik Tok

  Mostly by truck, a lot looking at driving over the Andies and exporting through Chilean port.
  These are very useful for loading containers with grain http://a-ward.com/container-loaders/

  Jul 09th, 2014 - 06:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  redp0ll

  Thanks. I wondered if it went by barge on the Parana river. A large number of Paraguayan barges under command of Argentine river pilots seem to have “accidentally” run onto sand banks lately.

  Jul 09th, 2014 - 06:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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  Tik Tok

  You can't trust Argentinian groups - therefore you should never rely on any solution, have a Plan B

  Jul 10th, 2014 - 12:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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  ilsen

  Vene-Argentine corruption in the rice Market:
  Recently, Clarín, featured an article that tied Chávez’s daughter to Argentinean rice and corn exports to Venezuela, but at inflated “fair socialist” prices.
  Bioart was created in 2009, but it wasn’t until 2013, the same year the trade agreement was signed, that the company registered with Argentina’s tax-collection agency. Roberto Vignati, a businessman who hasn’t been afraid to express his admiration for Kirchner and Hugo Chávez, was the face of the company. Likewise, María Gabriela Chávez wasn’t afraid to show her friendship with Vignati, when she shared a picture with him on her Twitter account in February. Vignati visited Argentina’s embassy in Caracas, met with María Gabriela Chávez, and only two weeks later, the company sent its first rice shipment.
  Not only was Bioart the only one allowed to export the rice and corn quota to Venezuela, it was, somehow, the one chosen by Kirchner’s administration to export these grains at a much higher price than the competition. The company could sell the rice at US$606.50 per ton, when the market value was $350-380. In fact, the price on Bioart’s exports was almost double the ones coming from Brazil and Uruguay.
  While Uruguay charged $337 per ton of rice, and Brazil $300, Bioart charged $606.5 per ton for the same product. In 2014 alone, the company had already sold over 40,000 tons of rice to Venezuela, and with prices 80 percent higher than those offered on the open market, Bioart earned a total of $16 million.
  While Uruguay charged $337 per ton of rice, and Brazil $300, Bioart charged $606.5 per ton for the same product. In 2014 alone, the company had already sold over 40,000 tons of rice to Venezuela, and with prices 80 percent higher than those offered on the open market, Bioart earned a total of $16 million.
  
  Cosy, huh?

  Jul 12th, 2014 - 10:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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