Tag: Orion

• Saturday, May 6th 2017 - 07:44 UTC

  Reefer in distress heading for the Falklands; scheduled to arrive Saturday morning

  

  A Panama flagged merchant vessel with a crew of 42 sailing in the South Atlantic sent a distress call following “a massive intake of water” in one of its holds, but will attempt to reach the Falkland Islands on its own means, according to a Friday report from the Argentine navy.

• Thursday, February 2nd 2017 - 17:28 UTC

  Argentine night air patrolling reveals “city of floating lights” in the South Atlantic

  

  A floating “city” of lights belonging to hundreds of jiggers, “mostly Asians”, operating in the grey fringes of the South Atlantic Argentine Economic Exclusive Zone, EEZ, at the 200 miles borderline have been filmed and monitored night after night by Argentine navy patrol aircraft, reports the Patagonia media.

• Sunday, January 29th 2017 - 09:57 UTC

  Damaged cruise vessel ready to leave Ushuaia on a piggy-back trip to Europe

  

  A major rescue operation took place in Ushuaia, Argentine Tierra del Fuego when a cruise vessel from National Geographic, which was non operational since limping back from Antarctica a month ago was hauled on to a special tug-carrier and is now preparing for its piggy-back trip to a Dutch ship yard for repairs.

• Monday, April 26th 2010 - 06:21 UTC

  Pulp Mill Dispute: Protest and Counter Protest on Both Sides of the River Uruguay

  

  Angry protestors from Argentina marched Sunday on to the bridge linking with Uruguay to express their disenchantment with the recent international court judgement on the pulp mill dispute, which confirmed the mill does not pollute and there’s no sufficient evidence for re-location or damages’ compensation as demanded by Argentine environmentalists.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 03:23 UTC

  Taiana calls Gualeguaychú activists to reconsider position and lift pickets

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana called on Gualeguaychú activists that keep international San Martín bridge blocked for more than three years to “reconsider their ways of action, mostly after the International Court of Justice ruling”.

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 03:11 UTC

  Cristina and Mujica to address Court ruling’s effects next Wednesday

  

  Uruguayan President Jose Mujica and his Argentine peer Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are to meet next Wednesday afternoon in Buenos Aires in what is to be the first encounter after The Hague International Court's ruling on Botnia paper mill was made public Tuesday.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:11 UTC

  “Argentina’s environmental hypocrisy”

  

  In its judgement on ”Pulp mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina vs. Uruguay)”, the International Court of Justice, (UN principal judicial organ) declared that Uruguay has not breached its substantive obligations for the protection of the environment provided by the Statute of the River Uruguay by authorizing the construction and commissioning of the Orion (Botnia) pulp mill.