Tag: Patagonia

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina's Patagonia bank teams with Swiss UBS and Banco do Brasil to have a global platform

  

  UBS BB Investment Bank, a joint venture between UBS Group AG and Banco do Brasil SA for South America, reached a collaboration agreement with Argentina’s Banco Patagonia SA.

• Tuesday, February 9th 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  YPF closer to restructuring its debt, expecting to concentrate in boosting shale deposits in Patagonia

  

  Argentina’s state-managed oil giant expects to avoid a costly default next month after it won support for a debt swap from a large creditor group. The so-called Ad Hoc Bondholder Group, which holds 45% of YPF’s 2021 notes, expressed support for the exchange after the company increased its cash sweetener over the weekend.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Massive losses of sheep in Patagonia highlands because of intense snowstorms

  

  Snowstorms and frosts in the high areas of the Argentine Patagonia Rio Negro province could cause the death of 70% of the flock, according to estimates from the provincial Livestock Secretariat, Tabaré Bassi.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2020 - 08:56 UTC

  Puerto Madryn 2020/21 cruise season agenda and calls “stand”; first vessel expected 25 October

  

  The head of the port's administration of Puerto Madryn, in Argentine Patagonia, said that so far the coming 2020/21 cruise season “stands”, and the first vessel is scheduled to call in the Chubut province maritime terminal next 25 October, despite the pandemic.

• Monday, March 16th 2020 - 11:15 UTC

  Chile quarantines 1.300 people aboard two cruise vessels

  

  Chile has quarantined more than 1,300 people aboard two cruise ships after an elderly Briton aboard one of them tested positive for the coronavirus, the health ministry announced on Saturday. Both ships are cruising the Chilean fjords in Patagonia.

• Saturday, January 18th 2020 - 08:45 UTC

  Another Argentine province, Chubut, asks to delay payments on debt

  

  The government of Argentina's Chubut province will seek to delay payments on debt after Buenos Aires province, Argentina's largest, also asked its creditors for extensions as the country grapples with a debt crisis, local media reported on Friday.

• Saturday, July 6th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentine fishing industry against granting facilities to the Chinese fleet in the South Atlantic

  

  The different chambers of the Argentine fisheries industry have joined efforts to expose alleged plans to grant the Chinese fishing fleet in the South Atlantic, “strategic corridors” in Patagonia ports for support and maintenance of their vessels, reports pescare.com.ar.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Tompkins Foundation donates Chile a million acres for two newly created national parks

  

  The foundation created by the late creator of U.S. clothing brands Esprit and The North Face turned over 407,000 hectares (1 million acres) of forest, mountain, lakes and glaciers in Patagonia to the government of Chile on Friday, the Tompkins Conservation Foundation said.

• Friday, April 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Top Gear “Patagonia Special” cars shredded to nut size in “hush-hush” operation

  

  Imagine three top-line sport vehicles, worth tens of thousands of dollars, from some of the most famous world brands coming to their proud end rolled over by caterpillars and shredded to pieces no greater than nuts. And the vehicles did not belong to drug dealers or arms trafficker or were part of some US extravagant show.

• Saturday, March 30th 2019 - 07:27 UTC

  UK's The Grand Tour motoring program call Argentina “God's cesspit”

  

  The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond has reignited the trio’s feud with Argentina by calling the country ‘God’s cesspit’. Jeremy Clarkson famously managed to rile millions of Argentines back in 2014 when he drove through Patagonia for an episode of Top Gear with a license plate number which read H982 FKL, sparking complaints the vehicle was referring to the Falklands War.