China rolling stock manufacturer to begin maintenance operations in Argentina

Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 07:05 UTC

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China’s rolling stock manufacturer China South Railway, CSR-Sifang will establish a presence in Argentina in a workshop currently ran by State-owned Trenes Argentinos Operadora Ferroviaria, Interior and Transport minister Florencio Randazzo announced on Tuesday. Read full article

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ChrisR
”Argentina’s skilled labor(sic).”

Another oxymoron.

Skilled at what, burning tyres outside the company gates when they are on strike?

The Chin are getting their tentacles into TDC even earlier than I thought they would.
Nov 05th, 2014 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pontefractious
@1 you say they have their tentacles in - I say they are suckers
Nov 05th, 2014 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 2

Correct!

What do you find on tentacles: suckers! :o)
Nov 05th, 2014 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Briton
Another midnight train to nowhere..lol
Nov 05th, 2014 - 02:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pontefractious
@3 - I make a great straight man
Nov 05th, 2014 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ChrisR
@ 5

I agree! :o)
Nov 05th, 2014 - 04:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Chicureo
The Chinese operate companies in Zimbabwe, Venezuela, and North Korea.

Pity. Poor Argentina as China operates like a loan shark with very sharp teeth...
Nov 05th, 2014 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Shipment terminals in the Soy area, direct to port, trans-shipped to bulk carriers, straight to China.

Carriages are sprats to catch the mackerel.
Nov 06th, 2014 - 10:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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RICO
Hope the Chinese have asked for payment up front, otherwise they can expect a return of nil on their investment.
Nov 07th, 2014 - 07:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Usurping Pirate
@8 : The irony is , the K government and every nationalist that ever picked up a pen all accuse Britain of asimilar narrow minded investment policy in Argentina in the 19th Century , so how the hell they justify this legalised plunder is beyond me .
Of course it will get very interesting when the increased rail freight starts to affect the pockets and power of the truckers union .There are already incidents on record of them blocking rail lines into the ports of Rosario and Bahia Blanca .
Nov 07th, 2014 - 10:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Pete Bog
“The Argentine government has bought 709 train carriages from CSR Sifang in the past”

What, they paid money for them? Or did they borrow the money?
Nov 07th, 2014 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ilsen
It is part of the 'loan' no doubt, in Yen, to boot. Just like MADuro, Cristina is mortgaging her country's future to the Chinese.
A dangerous precedent to set.
Nov 09th, 2014 - 03:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
#10 UP,
you justify it by need, that's all you need.

When you're flat on your back - like the UK after WWII - the vultures come around and pick your bones clean. Britain lost half the world; the greatest empire ever known. Argentina is progressively, hideously and inexorably losing its heart, and its soul to the real vulture - China.

CFK - in a narrow sense - is right to use this analogy, but she is wrong in her accumulation of her personal fortunes stolen from her suffering peoples.
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