Tag: Galicia

• Saturday, October 25th 2025 - 10:30 UTC

  Uruguay accuses Spanish shipyard Cardama of fraud; company calls it political interference

  

  The Uruguayan government has filed civil and criminal charges against the Spanish shipyard Cardama, which was contracted to build two offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) worth more than US$92 million, after detecting alleged irregularities in the company’s performance bond. The case has escalated into a diplomatic and political dispute, with Montevideo accusing the shipyard of fraud and Cardama denying the charges, claiming it is being used for “electoral purposes.”

• Friday, August 16th 2024 - 10:04 UTC

  Argos Georgia: bodies of six Galician mariners expected Monday in Spain

  

  The inquests into the deaths of six 6 crew members of the FV Argos Georgia was opened this week in the Falkland Islands Coroners Court, Malcolm Simmons. Those in attendance, both virtually and in person, included Nigel Phillips, Governor of St Helena, (since the vessel flew the Red Ensign of St Helena), representatives for the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Nick Hibberd from the UK Marine Accident Investigation Branch, Rosario Bernal, Consul General of Spain in London, and next of kin for crew members.

• Thursday, January 11th 2024 - 10:55 UTC

  Galicia fleet sail for Falklands fisheries, “it's an adventure, given the uncertainties”

  

  Some 1,200 crew members are readying in Galicia to depart for the South Atlantic fisheries to begin the first of two squid in Falkland Islands waters. A mission according to reports from the Vigo media, which could be one of the most difficult of the long standing relation between the Spanish fishermen and their Falklands counterpart partners.

• Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 13:09 UTC

  Spain makes official the use of three minority languages, Catalan, Basque and Galician

  

  Spain's national parliament in Madrid allowed the use of three minority languages on Tuesday after a concession to Catalan separatists from Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. Madrid has also called for the languages — Catalan, Basque, and Galician — to become official EU languages, meeting with objections from some other member states.

• Monday, October 17th 2022 - 20:17 UTC

  Lacalle welcomes Galician leader in Montevideo

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou Monday welcomed Galicia's Xunta President Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela at the official Suarez y Reyes Residence in Montevideo.

• Tuesday, August 30th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  Falklands' Beauchene Fishing orders a new trawler to replace “Baffin Bay” sunk in Vigo

  

  Galicia's Copemar and their Falkland Islands partner Beauchene Fishing have contracted Armón Vigo, an affiliate of the Asturian Naval Group Armon, for the construction of a trawler to replace the “Baffin Bay” which caught fire and sunk in the port of Vigo on its return from the Loligo season in the Islands.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 10:21 UTC

  Galician fishing companies demanding an increase in fuel bonus for the vessels

  

  The Galicia fishing lobby from Puerto Marin, Opromar, is complaining it is suffering the impact of sustained increase in fuel prices and is demanding action from the Spanish government.

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Spanish sailors in Falklands honor their fellow crew members from Villa de Pitanxo lost off Newfoundland

  

  Crew members from the Spanish fleet which operates with Falkland Islands licenses met on Monday in the capital Stanley for a poignant ceremony to honor their fellow mariners who went down with the fishing vessel Villa de Pitanxo, off Newfoundland.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  “The worst tragedy of our fishing fleet in 38 years”, Spanish Fisheries minister

  

  Spain's Fisheries Minister Luis Planas has called the sinking of the “Villa de Pitanxo“ off the coast of Canada the ”worst tragedy for our fishing fleet in 38 years”. At least nine sailors have died and a dozen remain missing after the vessel fishing for black halibut sank on Monday night early Tuesday some 450 kilometers from Newfoundland.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  No more searching for survivors from Spanish fishing trawler

  

  Canada's naval authorities have stopped searching for survivors of the Spanish fishing trawler “Villa de Pitanxo” which sank abruptly off Newfoundland Tuesday, it was announced.