Tag: Argentina

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Ushuaia anticipates an exceptional cruise season with 431 calls

  

  Ushuaia, extreme south of Argentina and the hub which handles most Antarctica bound cruises are expecting an exceptional 2019/20 season with some 431 calls, up from the 392 of the previous season, according to provincial port authorities.

• 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 - 09:55 UTC

  Opinion Polls in Argentina indicate Fernandez will be the next president

  

  Caution minded since Argentine public opinion polls were so far off the mark during the August Primary mandatory elections which triggered the current major political and financial upheaval in the country...

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Alberto Fernandez candidate stumbles in Salta province primary

  

  The just over a million registered voters in the Argentine northern province of Salta, next to Bolivia, went to the polls on Sunday to choose candidates for the coming provincial election of governor, lawmakers and city councillors, to be held on 10 November.

• 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.

• 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”.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 18:16 UTC

  Argentine finalists of the Falklands Regional Student Competition

  

  The Falklands Regional Student Competition offers a one-week trip for students in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay to visit the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:59 UTC

  Argentine officers accused of 'burying' and 'staking' conscripts during the Falklands conflict face trial

  

  An Argentine federal judge from the city of Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego will be questioning four officers who allegedly during the 1982 Falklands' conflict ordered the “burial” and “staking” of a group of conscripts for having slaughtered a sheep, since they were desperately hungry and suffering from cold weather conditions.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  
Argentine industrial activity dropped 6.4% in August and 8.1% so far this year

  

  Industrial activity in Argentina dropped 6.4% during August compared to a year ago and 2.8% over last July, totalling a slide of 8.1% so far this year, according to the official stats office, Indec.

• 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.