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Montevideo, July 12th 2025 - 21:40 UTC

Tag: La Plata

  • Tuesday, August 20th 2024 - 08:58 UTC

    Argentine port terminal granted carbon-neutral certification

    TecPlata's goal was to turn its terminal into an engine of positive and sustainable growth

    The TecPlata terminal in the Argentine port of La Plata has been granted a carbon-neutral certification, making it the first in the country to achieve such a feat, thus confirming the company's global sustainability strategy. The new status means offsetting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by an activity so that the balance is zero.

  • Thursday, August 3rd 2023 - 10:22 UTC

    Mutation of dengue mosquito resistant to pesticides

    The peak activity of Aedes aegypti females is in February and March. Spraying poison outside that period only favors genetic resistance to the chemicals

    Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) has identified in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and in the country's northwestern provinces genetic mutations in the Aedes aegypti mosquito (carrier of the dengue virus) that turned them resistant to normally lethal doses of pesticides, the national news agency Telam reported amid a dengue outbreak, which has resulted in 129,150 cases and 65 deaths over the past 12 months.

  • Saturday, September 17th 2022 - 10:12 UTC

    La Plata recalls 46th Anniversary of “The Night of the Pencils”

    “Today more than 5 million teenagers use the student ticket” many were tortured or killed for, survivor Pablo Díaz recalled

    Groups of survivors, students, and other human rights organizations Friday commemorated the 46th anniversary of the massacre known as “The Night of the Pencils” (La Noche de Los Lápices) in the Argentine city of La Plata where the atrocities committed by the military dictatorship were perpetrated.

  • Friday, July 15th 2022 - 09:32 UTC

    Missing missile from 2015 found in La Plata

    The authorities had said in 2015 that the projectile was useless without a launcher and none of those were missing, but one was found Thursday

    A group of laborers doing trenching work in the city of La Plata Thursday found a missile that had vanished from Argentine Army barracks years ago when current Federal Intelligence Agency Chief Agustín Rossi was Defense Minister, it was reported.

  • Thursday, December 16th 2021 - 09:01 UTC

    Santa Fe-La Plata circuit added to export opportunities in Argentina

    The circuit is designed to carry out a minimum of 2 monthly calls between the ports of Santa Fe and La Plata and from there to the world

    The first shipment from the port of Santa Fe bound for the Port of La Plata has departed, thus marking the commencement of a logistics circuit with the TecPlata container terminal that brings on a plethora of business opportunities, it was reported.

  • Monday, September 20th 2021 - 08:59 UTC

    Scathing criticism from the Pope and Church to the Argentine political system: “President little time left”

    Archbishop of La Plata, Victor Manuel Fernandez with the Pope

    Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and the political and power struggle that emerged from Sunday, September 12 primary elections cataclysm received scathing criticisms from the Pope and the Catholic Church.