Argentina

Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Real-time positions of fishing vessels available on-line

The Undersecretariat of Fishing and Development Activities of the Delta Area is now publishing on its web site maps that show the real-time positions of fishing vessels equipped with satellite monitoring devices, the Ministry of Agrarian Affairs (MAA) reported.
Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina reaffirms sovereignty rights over Falklands

Argentina reaffirmed Wednesday its “imprescriptible sovereignty rights” over the Malvinas/Falkland Islands and questioned the United Kingdom's reluctance to address the issue.
Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Buenos Aires port security reinforced

Argentina's Coast Guard on Wednesday reinforced security in Buenos Aires ferry Terminal following the decision by picketers who are blocking access to neighboring Uruguay in protest over the building of a pulp mill, to impede daily river shuttles to Montevideo.
Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina takes Chile to WTO on Chilean safeguards on dairy products

Argentina has filed a dispute complaint against Chile before the World Trade Organization (WTO) after Chile in mid December imposed a 23-percent additional safeguard on some dairy products imported from Argentina.
Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina establishes hake TAC of 340.000 tons

Argentina's Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Secretariat, SAGP y A, established a total 2007 allowable catch, TAC, of 340.000 tons of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) which is 10.5% lower than last year's TAC of 380.000 tons.
Wednesday, January 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine Coast Guard arrest Taiwanese jigger

A Taiwanese flagged vessel was arrested by the Argentine Coast Guard accused of fishing inside Argentina's EEZ and is currently en route to Comodoro Rivadavia.
Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentine stock market among top ten in 2006

Argentina's stock market ended 2006 with an unprecedented yearly average increase of 35 percent which placed it among the world's top ten performers, the Argentine Institute for Capital Markets (IAMC, in its Spanish acronym), said in a report. Several other world markets also reached record highs.
Tuesday, January 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Summer hake ban in common fishing zone

The Maritime Front Joint Technical Commission (CTMFM) has set the summer ban for common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) in the common fishing zone (CFZ) shared by Argentina and Uruguay, between 1 January and 31 march 2007.
Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Argentina announces 2.3-billion-dollar fuel refinery project

In an effort to offset expected shortages in diesel fuel supplies, the Argentine government has announced a project to build a refinery that will require an about 2.3-billion-dollar investment which will be mainly made by some 30 private oil companies, with the exception of Royal/Dutch Shell, which is engaged in a dispute with the administration.
Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Tobacco advertising banned in Buenos Aires City

Public advertising of tobacco in Buenos Aires City has been banned as from the first day of 2007, under municipal law 1799 passed in late 2005, amid a drive to curb smoking-related illnesses in Argentina that according the national government kill 40,000 people a year.