Tag: Bahia Blanca

• Monday, March 10th 2025 - 10:50 UTC

  Number of fatalities in Bahía Blanca updated to 16

  

  Argentine authorities have updated the number of fatalities from Friday's severe storm in Bahía Blanca, with the final death toll still feared to rise as over 100 people remain missing, with more than 1,000 evacuated. Local and national officials under the Unified Emergency Command are coordinating relief efforts, which involve federal forces, security teams, and the military.

• Saturday, March 8th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

  At least ten killed in Bahía Blanca heavy storm

  

  The heavy rain and severe flooding hitting the Argentine city of Bahía Blanca Friday resulted in at least ten deaths, with authorities warning that more victims may be discovered as water levels recede. The storm, which dumped 400 millimeters of water in eight hours, has left parts of the city under two meters of water, forcing the evacuation of 1,321 people to 15 rescue centers.

• Friday, March 7th 2025 - 19:28 UTC

  Unprecedented storm hits Argentine city of Bahía Blanca

  

  The City of Bahía Blanca, in the Argentine Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, 570 km south of the country's capital, was struck by a record-setting rainfall way worse than the historic 167.6 mm recorded in 1933.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2024 - 08:02 UTC

  Argentine grain exports have to be completed in the Atlantic because of insufficient draft along the Parana waterway

  

  With the Parana crucial waterway again beginning to suffer the consequences of lack of a sufficient water level, making the loading of cereals and oil seeds at the main Argentine exporting port of Rosario, it is estimated that in the remaining months of the year, Bahía Blanca directly on the Atlantic will be receiving probably half a million tons of additional grains to dispatch.

• Thursday, January 18th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentina: New oil spill recorded off Bahía Blanca

  

  Argentine authorities in the city port of Bahía Blanca in the province of Buenos Aires said a new oil spill had been reported after the one late last month. However, this time around the damage would have been controlled in less time, it was explained.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine Federal Court upholds Stanley landing ship must not be scrapped

  

  A Bahía Blanca Federal Court of Appeals has upheld a judicial ruling whereby the decommissioned destroyer ARA Santísima Trinidad which took part in the Apr. 2, 1982 landing at Port Stanley, can not be sold as scrap metal, despite its current state of deterioration.

• Saturday, May 8th 2021 - 08:22 UTC

  Dredging starts off Argentine port of Bahía Blanca

  

  Dredging has started off the Argentine port of Bahía Blanca this week to restore the main channel so that ships up to 45 feet deep or 50 50 feet at high tide can be allowed in.

• Saturday, April 20th 2019 - 07:58 UTC

  Five French refurbished Super Etendard fighter bombers en route to Argentina

  

  Argentina will be receiving in a few weeks time five refurbished Dassault-Breguet Super Etendard (SEM) fighter bombers decommissioned from the French navy. The 13 million Euro purchase also includes a flight simulator, engines and spares and are currently sailing across the Atlantic en route to Bahía Blanca.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2018 - 08:40 UTC

  Snowfall across central Uruguay on Sunday

  

  A rare snowfall was seen across parts of Uruguay on Sunday while graupel resulted in an icy coating across parts of eastern Argentina.

• Monday, April 30th 2012 - 04:11 UTC

  New YPF management says gas supply is guaranteed, in spite of Repsol

  

  The current managers of YPF accused Spain’s Repsol of deliberately delaying or ignoring contracts to supply Argentina with liquid natural gas, following the seizure of a majority stake in the company belonging to the Spanish corporation.