Chilean shipping company weighs a monthly route between Punta Arenas and the Falklands

Sunday, July 26th 2026 - 09:45 UTC

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Chilean company Easter Island Naviera (EIL) is considering establishing a monthly cargo shipping service between Punta Arenas and the Falklands, following a visit to the archipelago in which its representatives held around a dozen meetings with local businesses and presented the project to the Islands' chamber of commerce. Read full article

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Steve Potts
Argentina considers all hydrocarbon exploration and production activities in the waters surrounding the islands illegal, viewing them as part of its continental shelf?
Jul 26th, 2026 - 02:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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imoyaro
As far as I am concerned, Argentina is illegal... ;)
Jul 26th, 2026 - 07:49 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Pugol-H
Well, Argentina is wrong and not for the first time.

Argentina’s continental shelf end 200nm from its coastline, after that it’s British territory.

Whether Argentina likes it or not, that is the reality.
Jul 26th, 2026 - 11:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Freddie Foster
Continental shelves are irrelevant. nothing more than a geographical term. nothing to do with a countries territory or international borders, Buenos Aires can protest till the cows come. its pointless and meaningless. I can not make my mind up who is the most childish. Argentine footballers or Argentine politicians.
Jul 27th, 2026 - 09:16 am - Link - Report abuse +1
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Terence Hill
International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the North Sea continental shelf cases, in which Denmark and the Netherlands based their claim inter alia on the doctrine of proximity, i.e., that the part of the continental shelf closest to the part of the state in question falls automatically under that state's jurisdiction. In these cases the ICJ rejected any contiguity type of approach. As for continuity, it is argued, the 1958 Geneva Convention on the Continental Shelf and Contiguous Zone, Article 1, now contained in the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, Article 76, does not support the view that coastal states have sovereignty over islands above the continental shelf. On the contary it laid down doctrine that islands had their own “continental shelves,” p.74
Jul 27th, 2026 - 01:04 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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