Tag: Port of Rio Grande

• Friday, April 5th 2024 - 10:59 UTC

  Milei makes snap trip to Ushuaia to meet Southern Command Chief Richardson

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei made a snap trip to Ushuaia late Thursday to meet US Southern Command Chief General Laura Richardson after Governor Gustavo Melella refused to welcome her and insisted she was “persona non grata.”

• Saturday, August 26th 2023 - 19:03 UTC

  China insists in taking over Rio Grande port in Patagonia as established in a MoU with Tierra del Fuego

  

  One of Buenos Aires' main dailies, La Nacion, is reporting that China will not back down from its port plan in Patagonia, as promised by the regional and national governments. In early June, Argentine Governor of Tierra del Fuego Gustavo Melella revived an old controversy concerning a deal with a Chinese company to build a multipurpose port in Rio Grande

• Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 08:39 UTC

  Brazil has a super port in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul

  

  After two years of dredging works using a federal investment of R$ 500 million, (some 80 million dollars) the Port of Rio Grande – the main port in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul – will be able to receive vessels of up to 366 meters in length. This is because the port’s new draft, (15 meters) was officially approved on October 26th.