Tag: Rio Grande

• Friday, May 27th 2011 - 01:53 UTC

  Montevideo port ranked ahead of Brazil’s Rio Grande in 2010

  

  In a ranking of the busiest port terminals in Latin America & Caribbean, elaborated in a work of Infrastructure Services Unit of ECLAC, Port of Rio Grande (RS) lost position for the Port of Montevideo, Uruguay. So they were, respectively, the 21st and 19th positions from the list.

• Tuesday, February 1st 2011 - 12:54 UTC

  Northeast Brazil to become “tuna hub” with support from Japan

  

  Japan will help Brazil develop a “tuna hub” at the north of the country with the purpose of doubling tuna catches. State of the art Japanese equipment together with Brazilian personnel specially trained to operate the new logistics are at the heart of the ambitious project which plans to turn the north-eastern impoverished state of Rio Grande do Norte into a tuna hub covering an extensive zone of the Atlantic.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 04:30 UTC

  Rio Grande in south Brazil geared to become “Mercosur hub and main port”

  

  Rio Grande in the south of Brazil has rapidly become the main competitor of the port of Montevideo based on a sustained expansion, deep dredging, the construction of new piers and update equipment.

• Tuesday, September 21st 2010 - 01:54 UTC

  Argentina denies “innocent pass” to Spanish trawler sailing from Falklands

  

  A Spanish flagged trawler that operates in Falkland Islands waters and was heading to Montevideo to unload 700 tons of fish was denied “innocent pass” through Argentine waters and had to steam an additional 17 hours at a cost of 7.000 litres of fuel.

• Wednesday, August 18th 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Spanish fishing vessels threatening to abandon the port of Montevideo

  

  Spanish fishing vessel owners have warned Uruguayan port authorities that they are considering leaving the port of Montevideo because of the costly labour disputes with crew members when the vessels dock, taking advantage of a very ‘misbalanced’ legislation.