Investments

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

  ExxonMobil will concentrate its growth ambitions in Brazil and Guyana

  

  ExxonMobil expects Brazil and Guyana will be key drivers for the company’s growth ambitions in the future, as the US super-major looks to concentrate the bulk of exploration and production development activities in the two South American nations, apparently leaving aside the shale deposits in Argentina.

• Monday, December 7th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Despite political turmoil, Peru joins the group of countries issuing debt maturing in 100 years

  

  Peru has joined a select group of countries issuing debt that matures in 100 years, as investors looked beyond the acute political crisis that has engulfed the country in recent weeks.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Uruguay/Google Tannat cable system links with Brazil and Argentina

  

  The Tannat cable system connecting Uruguay and Brazil by sea has now been officially extended to Argentina. The cable is co-owned by Uruguay’s state-run telco Antel and by Google. Active since 2018, the 2,000km system links Maldonado, near Montevideo in Uruguay, to Praia Grande/Santos in Brazil’s São Paulo state.

• Friday, December 4th 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  LATAM expects to function at 38% normal capacity during December

  

  LATAM Airlines expects to function at 38% normal capacity during the month of December according to a press release from the company. This includes the resumption of some international routes that remained suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Ford plans to invest US$ 500 million in Argentina to launch its new Ranger model

  

  U.S. automaker Ford on Tuesday announced it will invest 580 million U.S. dollars in Argentina to manufacture the next generation of its Ranger model truck at its plant in the city of General Pacheco, in northern Greater Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, December 3rd 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  RRS James Clark Ross in South Georgia after seven weeks sailing

  

  The RRS James Clark Ross has arrived at King Edward Point, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, after seven weeks sailing south from the UK. For the staff disembarking at King Edward Point, this represents the culmination of a journey that started in quarantine in the UK in October to enable safe travel.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 13:45 UTC

  UK steps forward and approve Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for rollout ‘next week’

  

  The United Kingdom steps forward the United States and Europe and became the first Western country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine for general use as it announced on Wednesday a rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s drug from next week.

• Wednesday, December 2nd 2020 - 09:00 UTC

  Navitas committed to offshore Falklands Sea Lion project farm in

  

  Rockhopper Exploration has confirmed that Navitas Petroleum remains committed to its proposed farm-in to the Sea Lion oil and gas project offshore the Falkland Islands, the company announced on its site.

• Saturday, November 28th 2020 - 08:05 UTC

  Argentine billionaire Eurnekian will erect a statue of Diego Maradona at Ezeiza airport

  

  Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian is preparing to fulfil an old promise to the late football icon Diego Maradona by erecting a statue of the player at the country’s main airport. Eurnekian, founder of Corporacion America Airports and one of the country’s top businessmen, announced the plan in a note of condolences published in newspaper La Nacion on Friday.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Italian giant shipbuilder will construct a major shipyard in Yucatán, Mexico

  

  Fincantieri, the Italian shipbuilding giant, has announced it has signed a letter of intent with the Ministry of Economic Development and Labour of the Yucatán State (Mexico) to participate in the design and construction of a shipyard located in the port of Progreso.