Tag: Magallanes strait

• Monday, November 13th 2023 - 20:54 UTC

  Panama Canal shipping queues: Punta Arenas dreams of a re-edition of pre 1914 scenario

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile and the South American continent is again illusioned with the re edition of pre 1914 times, before the United States finished the Panama Canal and created the state of Panama, significantly cutting the time of shipping wishing to cross from the Pacific to the Caribbean and vice versa, and ensuring safe and reliable links between the East and West coasts of the US.

• Saturday, June 17th 2023 - 09:35 UTC

  Chilean ferry agrees to keep accepting Argentine pesos

  

  The Chilean sea shuttle connecting the Argentine provinces of Santa Cruz and Tierra del Fuego through the Atlantic Ocean will continue to accept Argentine pesos but only from private individuals, the company TABSA had announced earlier this month that, effective June 16, it would only agree to payments in US dollars, Chilean pesos or credit card.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2021 - 19:04 UTC

  Argentina's attempt to have the Magellan Strait defined as a “shared space”

  

  Argentina's attempt, mistaken or in purpose to describe in official policy to its Armed Forces the Magellan Strait and areas of the Drake Passage, as “shared spaces”, have triggered a strong reaction from the Chilean media and nationalist groups.

• Thursday, September 4th 2014 - 05:42 UTC

  Magallanes received 630.000 tourists in 2013, expects a 5% increase this year

  

  Magallanes Region economy (in the extreme south of Chile) received an injection of 220 million dollars from the 630.000 tourists that arrived by air, sea or land to the area during 2013, according to the latest release form the regional Tourism Office (Sernatur).

• Sunday, January 22nd 2012 - 04:57 UTC

  Argentina is “not intimidating Falkland Islanders”; claiming sovereignty right

  

  Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo, quickly hit back at the statements made by the British government, after Foreign Secretary William Hague said that Argentina “should stop their intimidation attempts” against the Falkland Islanders.

• Friday, September 3rd 2010 - 14:27 UTC

  Humpback whales in Chilean sanctuaries to be tracked with GPS

  

  Starting December, scientists from Chile’s Biomar Foundation will use GPS (Global Positioning System) to follow the movements of humpback whales in protected marine area Francisco Coloane, in the Magellan Strait. The whales are to be monitored for 12 months.