Investments

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:09 UTC

  Weaker demand and Argentine situation hit hard Brazilian auto industry

  

  Brazil’s auto industry trade group Anfavea has slashed its forecast for 2019 vehicle production growth to a modest 2.1% from 9% previously, it said on Monday. Anfavea had big plans this year for Brazil’s auto industry, which has been slowly recovering from a significant slump.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Amazon planning a regional data center in Argentina; congress passes bill to attract digital services and nanotechnology

  

  Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud division plans to build a regional data center in a free-trade zone in Argentina, according to Buenos Aires media reports. The Seattle-based company is preparing to invest about US$ 800 million in the project over 10 years and will reap considerable tax benefits by locating the data center in the Bahia Blanca-Coronel Rosales districts of the province of Buenos Aires.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:26 UTC

  Cruise industry overhauling vessels to appeal to a younger crowd

  

  Tucked away in the south-west of Singapore, at Sembcorp Marine’s Tuas shipyard, Royal Caribbean’s 15-deck Voyager of the Seas cruise ship is getting a US$97 million facelift.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands/Sao Paulo air-link will be serviced with a Boeing 767, Argentine sources

  

  The Argentine media has revealed some additional details about the coming weekly airlink between the Falkland Islands and the South American continent, scheduled to begin “sometime in the second half of November”.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:12 UTC

  Mexico does not seek control of Zama, the country's major oilfield discovery in decades

  

  Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that his government is not seeking to take control of the Zama oilfield discovery, which is currently operated by a private consortium led by U.S.-based Talos Energy. The statement follows on a report from Reuters earlier in the week saying that Mexico’s national oil company, Pemex, wants to take control of Zama from Talos.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 14:57 UTC

  Falklands flagged, BAS latest incorporation: RRS Sir David Attenborough”

  

  The Royal Research Ship RRS Sir David Attenborough, has been flagged to the Falkland Islands and officially named in a ceremony at Birkenhead, near Liverpool on Thursday September 26.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Royal Navy fifth patrol vessel formally named HMS Spey; Falklands' bound HMS Forth undergoing helicopter trials

  

  The fifth and final new patrol ship for the Royal Navy was today formally named as work on HMS Spey nears completion. The shattering of a bottle of whisky from the affiliated Speyside Distillery as it struck the hull of the £127m Offshore Patrol Vessel marked the formal ‘baptism’ after Spey’s sponsor Lady Alison Johnstone had uttered the historic words “I name this ship…”.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:27 UTC

  Argentine fisheries coastal research vessel, “Mar Argentino” launched in Galicia

  

  The Argentine coastal fisheries research vessel BIP “Mar Argentino” (Argentine Sea), was launched this week in Vigo, Spain and should be ready to sail and operate by next March. She will join the renovated fleet of research vessels from the country's Fisheries Research and Development Institute, INIDEP, in Mar del Plata.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  British/Argentina AMR research partnership programs with £5 million of UK aid

  

  The UK government has provided £5 million of aid as part of an Argentine program to manage antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in agriculture and its impact on the environment. The funding will go to five research partnerships between the UK and Argentina.

• Saturday, September 28th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  China opens the world's largest terminal airport which is to handle 170m pax by 2025

  

  China's new US$ 11 billion mega airport has opened its doors, days before the country's 70th-anniversary celebrations. The Daxing International sea star-shaped airport in the capital Beijing was formally opened by President Xi Jinping and is the largest in the world.