Tag: bananas

• Tuesday, August 29th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

  Paraguayan banana exporters concerned over Argentina not paying for shipments

  

  Paraguayan banana exporters met Monday in Asunción with Foreign Minister Rubén Ramírez Lezcano to seek help from the government in order to collect the debt from Argentine buyers who are behind in their payments of some US$ 6 million, it was reported. The producers fear the problem might get worse if no action is taken.

• Friday, August 11th 2023 - 11:17 UTC

  Major haul of cocaine in Rotterdam: eight tons in a shipment of Ecuadorean bananas

  

  Ecuador again is headlines. Netherlands authorities have seized eight tons of cocaine in the port of Rotterdam, prosecutors announced on Thursday. The drug is valued at an estimated US$660 million and represents the biggest haul ever recorded at the port. The last biggest was a 4,500-kilogram haul made in 2020.

• Friday, November 9th 2012 - 06:05 UTC

  EU and ten Latinamerican countries end 20-year ‘banana dispute’

  

  The European Union and ten Latinamerican countries signed an agreement on Thursday settling the longest running series of disputes in the history of the multilateral trading system, better known as the ‘banana dispute’.