Tag: South Atlantic

• Tuesday, March 29th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Uruguayan Defense receives three bids for purchase of OPVs

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Defense will now have to weigh three bids from manufacturers of Dutch, French, and Chinese origin who are interested in selling two Ocean Patrol Vessels (OPV) to the South American country's Navy, it was announced Monday in Montevideo after the tender was opened.

• Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 09:16 UTC

  Falklands launches consultation on Marine Managed Areas to conserve the Islands marine environment

  

  The unique marine environment of the Falkland Islands is important to the community and is vital in supporting biodiversity and the economy of the Islands. As part of the role in caring for and managing our marine environment for current and future generations, the Falkland Islands Government is undertaking policy development for Marine Managed Areas (MMAs) for the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, March 17th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Argentina publishes easy-read guide on Malvinas for “adequate reporting and avoiding inaccuracies”

  

  Argentina's Public Defender's Office set out a booklet with a list of recommendations for the “adequate treatment by media” of issues linked to the sovereignty dispute over the Falklands/Malvinas, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, and adjoining maritime spaces with the purpose of avoiding “inaccuracies towards audiences”.

• Monday, March 14th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentine fisheries industry exports hit by the Russia/Ukraine war

  

  Sanctions on Russia for the invasion of Ukraine are intensifying and biting, with consequences for the Argentine fishing industry, mainly because Russian importers are rejecting shipments as the Rubble, last week, had devalued almost 75%.

• Friday, February 25th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Uruguayan fish processing plants blame unions for the dismantling the industry

  

  The Uruguayan Fishing Industry Chamber, CIPU announced one of its associates had been forced to send 80 workers to unemployment insurance because it run out of fish to process, as a result of the conflict in fishing vessels. The Chamber claimed that in a decade the fishing industry has been cut to half because of the ongoing labor conflicts.

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:20 UTC

  No more searching for survivors from Spanish fishing trawler

  

  Canada's naval authorities have stopped searching for survivors of the Spanish fishing trawler “Villa de Pitanxo” which sank abruptly off Newfoundland Tuesday, it was announced.

• Tuesday, February 15th 2022 - 21:55 UTC

  Spanish trawler sinks in Canadian waters: 7 dead, many missing

  

  A Spanish-flagged trawler has sunk Tuesday off the Newfoundland coast in eastern Canada, killing at least seven people while rescue efforts were underway to find the rest of the crew. Three survivors have been found, and a lifeboat is still missing. Hence hopes are high others could have made it through.

• Monday, January 31st 2022 - 12:55 UTC

  Argentina decries British “show of force” in South Atlantic

  

  Argentina's Foreign Ministry has labeled a new military deployment by the United Kingdom in the Falkland Islands as “a new and unjustified show of force and a deliberate departure from the calls of the numerous resolutions of the United Nations and other international organizations.”

• Saturday, January 29th 2022 - 02:40 UTC

  Biologists to monitor South Atlantic fauna during 2022 Antarctic campaign

  

  The Argentina Navy's icebreaker ARA Almirante Irízar has added four biologists to its crew to monitor wildlife in the South Atlantic and around Antarctica, the news service Télam has reported.

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Argentina's JMC has 431 foreign vessels on its radar

  

  Argentina's Joint Maritime Command (JMC) has denounced the presence of some 431 foreign boats near the country's South Atlantic territorial waters limit, it was reported. Around 80% of the vessels were said to be of Chinese origin.