Tag: Bahia Blanca

• 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.

• Thursday, January 5th 2012 - 05:15 UTC

  Swedish contractor to expand Argentine railroad network to Bahía Blanca

  

  Argentina is expanding its railroad network to cope with increasing demands for its growing export sector plus expectations of a boost in transit trade from landlocked Paraguay and regional commerce.

• Wednesday, November 9th 2011 - 07:09 UTC

  Argentina launches tender for 90 cargoes of LNG in 2012; up 80% from 2011

  

  Argentina's state energy company Enarsa has launched an international tender for the delivery of a more-than-expected 90 cargoes of LNG in 2012 to meet rising energy demand, a source said Tuesday.

• Wednesday, September 7th 2011 - 11:13 UTC

  Argentina en route to importing three times more natural gas than in 2010

  

  Argentina could import 66 liquefied natural gas cargoes in 2011 triple the amount it purchased last year, according to data from state energy company Enarsa.