International

• Wednesday, June 14th 2023 - 06:37 UTC

  MSC shopping for up to 24 dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships

  

  World’s largest container line, Mediterranean Shipping C, MSC, is shopping again in Asia for more new builds. Maersk Broker is reporting MSC has approached top yards in China and South Korea for a new series of dual-fuelled 8,000 TEU ships, with MSC tipped to be enquiring for both LNG and methanol dual-fuel vessels.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 11:12 UTC

  It's official: Tierra del Fuego planning a multipurpose port in Rio Grande

  

  Argentina's general elections next October are focusing mainly on inflation (150% this year, cost of living and food prices), plus security and street violence, but for those a bit better off and with time to think a semi-hidden issue, plus the overall influence of China in the country.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:58 UTC

  WaPo: US pushing for 6 new UN Security Council permanent members

  

  According to The Washington Post, the United States is developing a proposal to add six permanent members to the UN Security Council who would nonetheless not have veto rights. “The evolving US proposal, which is expected to include the addition of up to six permanent seats to the Council without granting those nations veto power, ” the WaPo reported on Monday.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Spain exhuming Civil War remains and returning them to their families towns

  

  A team of experts in Spain has begun work to exhume the bodies of more than 100 civil war victims from a huge basilica complex near Madrid, where dictator Francisco Franco once lay.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Italy mourns Il Cavaliere Berlusconi, the end of an era in Italy

  

  The passing of Il Cavaliere, Silvio Berlusconi, is the end of an era for Italy. For the past fifty years, his shadow has loomed large over parliament, the media, football and the man on the street.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 10:19 UTC

  Uruguayan World Champs get the hero's welcome

  

  Uruguay's U-20 World Cup-winning national team was given a hero's welcome in Montevideo on Monday as the public poured into the streets to cheer their bus as it made its way through the South American country's capital along the Rambla, along Avenida 18 de Julio, on its way to the Centenario stadium.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 08:16 UTC

  UAE Minister has busy day in Buenos Aires

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero Monday welcomed United Arab Emirates Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy to deepen bilateral ties and open new exchange channels between both countries, it was reported by the Palacio San Martín.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:36 UTC

  Brazilian beef stranded in Chinese ports triggers a Lula phone call to Xi

  

  Since some 70,000 tons of Brazilian beef are stranded at Chinese ports awaiting an official clearance resolution from Beijing since the identification of an atypical case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease” in Brazil, President Lula da Silva revealed he contacted his counterpart Xi Jinping on Juke 6, to try and overcome the situation.

• Tuesday, June 13th 2023 - 01:28 UTC

  Scotland's SNP in disarray, police question Sturgeon on independence referendum finances

  

  Scotland's former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been released without charge pending further investigations after being arrested by police. She was arrested in connection with the ongoing investigation into the Scottish National Party's funding and finances at 10:09 on Sunday, reports the BBC.

• Monday, June 12th 2023 - 11:02 UTC

  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi succumbs to leukemia

  

  Silvio Berlusconi, the flamboyant former Prime Minister of Italy, has passed away at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan after battling leukemia for an extended period, as reported by Italian media today.