Tag: Rosario port

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:25 UTC

  “An unforgettable year for soybeans in Argentina”, yields and harvested area at its lowest

  

  Argentine soy yields and harvesting area have been chopped by drought to their lowest levels since the 2008/09 season, analysts said on Thursday, citing the effect of a four-month dry spell that suddenly gave way to floods in April.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

  Trucks strike threatens Argentine cereal exports and soy crushing industry

  

  A protest by grain transporters in Argentina could leave exporters and crushers operating without soy, corn and wheat, an industry group said on Monday.

• Monday, June 1st 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentine oil-crushing industry unions back to work after 26-day strike

  

  Argentine oil crushing industry workers reached over the weekend a much disputed salary agreement, ending a 26 day strike, and hopefully resuming activities which have paralyzed the Rosario cereals and oilseeds stock market and forced a queue of over 140 vessels and barges along the Paraná river.

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 09:05 UTC

  Oil crushers strike in Argentina on 25th day; 100 vessels delayed waiting to load

  

  The head of an Argentine soy crushers' union expressed optimism on Thursday that a salary agreement was near and would end the strike, which has affected the key Rosario soy market.

• Saturday, May 23rd 2015 - 06:06 UTC

  Argentina's soy market paralyzed by oilseed crushers union three weeks strike

  

  The soy market in Argentina's pivotal grains hub was virtually paralyzed for the fifth day on Friday as most exporters refrained from purchases in a bid to pressure the government to resolve a nearly three-week long strike among crushing workers.

• Wednesday, June 11th 2014 - 02:02 UTC

  Argentina port strike at soy-harvest peak, delays 126 ships queuing to load

  

  A strike of dock workers in Argentina's grains and oilseeds export hub Rosario was holding on Tuesday for the second day running 126 ships, which are queuing and waiting to load.

• Friday, March 21st 2014 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina's grain shipping blocked by vessel grounded in the Paraná

  

  Argentina's river Paraná is blocked since early March when a Cypriot flagged vessel broke down with a 45.000 tons cargo of soybeans, thus holding back access of another eighty vessels waiting to load in Rosario and other ports in the heartland of the grains and oilseeds country.

• Thursday, May 23rd 2013 - 02:10 UTC

  Argentine ports strike stalls oilseed and grains exports at peak harvest time

  

  Argentine longshoremen on strike at the peak of summer harvests exports have scores of grains ships delayed in and around due to a three-day-old conflict that threatens to bog down shipments at a time of heightened world demand for South American soy and corn, according to industry sources.

• Thursday, April 12th 2012 - 03:05 UTC

  Major industrial action threatens Argentine ports at harvest export peak

  

  The Argentine maritime workers union, SOMU, decided not to work overtime, a measure which affects most ports from inland Rosario on the Paraná River to Bahía Blanca on the South Atlantic, when thousands of trucks are lined up with the summer harvest.

• Thursday, April 5th 2012 - 23:06 UTC

  Argentina’s main grains export hub blocked by grounded vessel

  

  Tens of cargo ships are delayed in Argentina because a grain-bulk carrier has grounded in the Parana River, 150 kilometres south of the city of Rosario, which is the country’s grains and oil seeds hub.