Tag: La Plata river

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Gas tanker runs aground in River Plate, stirs memories of Suez canal incident

  

  The Norwegian-flagged Hoegh Esperanza ship ran aground en route to Escobar in the shallow waters of the River Plate and needed to be towed out of its predicament so that navigation could resume.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 16:04 UTC

  Argentina says Uruguay is authorised to dredge Montevideo port to 13 metres only

  

  In 2020, the Uruguayan government agreed on a framework agreement for the dredging and widening of the access channel to the port of Montevideo, which provoked criticism from neighbouring Argentina. Now the Argentine government has informed Uruguay that it has authorized the dredging of the access channel to the port of Montevideo to only 13 meters, and not 14, as announced by the current and previous Uruguayan governments.

• Monday, June 24th 2019 - 12:02 UTC

  Uruguay and Argentina with a “dry border” for the first time in history

  

  Uruguay and Argentina will have for the first time a “dry border”. This is not because historians, cartographers or geographers suddenly found out, or Uruguay grabbed land from its larger neighbor.

• Wednesday, August 5th 2015 - 06:52 UTC

  Lost humpback whale which ended in Buenos Aires lured back to sea

  

  A lost whale which made a surprise visit to a marina in the Buenos Aires port area, periodically surfacing among the yachts while hundreds of onlookers tried to capture the moment with smartphones, finally on Tuesday was lured back to the open sea in a combined operation.

• Wednesday, May 28th 2014 - 08:40 UTC

  Five killed as small plane goes down in the River Plate coast; four survived

  

  A small plane crash landed on Tuesday into the Río de la Plata river with nine passengers on board. Four of them were successfully rescued and transferred to hospitals in Buenos Aires and Uruguay, and at least five people were reported dead.

• Wednesday, May 15th 2013 - 07:24 UTC

  Uruguay awards French company contract for 1.2bn dollars re-gasification plant

  

  Uruguay awarded French gas and power group GDF Suez SA a contract to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) re-gasification plant at an estimated cost of 1.125 billion dollars, the government said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, July 26th 2012 - 06:53 UTC

  Argentina freezes all activities in shared channel which is crucial for Uruguayan export trade

  

  Argentina decided to suspend all activities related to the River Plate Martin Garcia access channel until the Uruguayan government is “fully satisfied” about the alleged “procedural irregularities” pointed out by Uruguay’s government audit tribunal.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2012 - 06:13 UTC

  Serious Uruguay/Argentina clash over the long delayed dredging of a River Plate canal

  

  Uruguay called on Argentina to begin the price bidding process for the delayed dredging of a River Plate canal and revealed it was already monitoring the Uruguayan side of a joint commission responsible for deciding on the final contract and which has come under suspicion of corruption.

• Monday, December 19th 2011 - 01:08 UTC

  Uruguayan navy air patrol escorts Spanish fishing vessel heading for Falklands

  

  As Spanish vessel with Falkland Islands fishing licence was harassed Saturday morning by the Argentine Coast Guard on leaving the port of Montevideo for the South Atlantic and had to reroute course in Uruguayan waters until reaching the high seas.

• Friday, October 14th 2011 - 03:21 UTC

  Argentina agrees to dredge a River Plate access canal, crucial for Uruguayan ports

  

  Uruguay and Argentina approved this week conditions to begin dredging the River Plate Martin Garcia access channel, an ongoing dispute of over ten years that seriously constrained Uruguay’s ports development, according to reports in the Montevideo media.