Tag: British flags

• Thursday, August 2nd 2012 - 22:57 UTC

  Argentina’s noose on Falklands: Buenos Aires province bans UK flagged vessels

  

  In what is seen as another step of Argentina’s noose-tightening of the Falkland Islands’ economy and development, the Buenos Aires Province Senate passed a law on Thursday banning British flagged vessels from calling at Argentina’s largest province ports.

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 05:59 UTC

  Anti British-Falklands incidents in south Argentina with UK flagged cargo vessel

  

  Serious incidents broke out on Thursday in the Argentine Patagonia port of Comodoro Rivadavia when a British flagged cargo vessel docked to load cement and were met with anti British-Falklands protestors.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2012 - 20:39 UTC

  Argentine transport union promises to boycott all English and UK convenience flag vessels

  

  The Argentine Confederation of Transport Workers, CATT announced Monday a boycott against all those “English vessels” that call in any port of the country to protest the UK “militaristic pretensions” in the Malvinas Islands and South Atlantic.