Tag: Uruguay River

• Thursday, September 5th 2013 - 03:53 UTC

  Argentine politicians warn Uruguay on possible expansion of pulp mill production capacity

  

  The bilateral conflict between Argentina and Uruguay over the UPM/Botnia pulp mill, on the Uruguayan side of the Uruguay River is once again leading to tension between the two neighbours amid reports that the plant’s Finnish owners plan to increase production from 1.1 to 1.3 million tons of cellulose paste per year.

• Thursday, August 29th 2013 - 03:50 UTC

  Uruguay’s first lady praises Cristina Fernandez and blast opposition

  

  Uruguay’s First Lady and Senator Lucia Topolansky said that for her fellow countrymen having a dispute with Argentina is “like fighting with yourself” and described as ‘painful’ the several years long conflict between the two countries over the construction of the UPM (former Botnia) pulp mill on a shared river.

• Friday, March 1st 2013 - 00:17 UTC

  Relations with Cristina Fernandez are “an impossible mission”, admits Mujica

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica admits that relations between Uruguay and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez can be “an impossible mission”, but at the same time praised Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez “as the most generous head of state he has ever met”.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  It is official: Uruguay’s UPM-Botnia pulp mill does not contaminate, never has

  

  A huge pulp mill, UPM, which has been at the heart of a several years’ controversy between Uruguay and Argentina, does not contaminate revealed Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro before the Uruguayan parliament.

• Friday, October 28th 2011 - 04:56 UTC

  IDB loan to promote tourism destinations and activities along the River Uruguay

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) approved a loan for 5 million dollars to promote tourism in six Uruguayan departments with the aim of boosting foreign exchange earnings, income, and employment.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Chilean/Swedish group ensure 1.35billion dollars to finance pulp plant in Uruguay

  

  The Chilean group Arauco, an affiliate of the pulp and paper Copec Enterprises announced on Thursday that together with its European partner they had subscribed 1.354 billion dollars in loans for the construction of a pulp plant in Uruguay.

• Tuesday, August 23rd 2011 - 04:12 UTC

  Argentina says the pulp mill conflict with Uruguay is over and ‘buried’

  

  Diplomatic relations between Argentina and Uruguay are going through “a very good moment, which can obviously be improved”, but there are “no open conflicts” because the dispute over the Botnia pulp mill has been definitively “buried”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman.

• Monday, August 1st 2011 - 22:51 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina summit will address canal dredging and power transmission

  

  The dredging of the Uruguay River and access to the Martin Garcia canal as well as importing power from Paraguay are the two main issues of the agenda to be addressed by Presidents Jose Mujica and Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner when they meet Tuesday in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 11:01 UTC

  Korean jiggers mooring off-season in Uruguayan fluvial port

  

  Three Korean jiggers which normally spend off-season time in Montevideo have moored in the port of Fray Bentos on the River Uruguay, as part of the de-centralization process launched by Uruguayan port authorities.

• Saturday, May 21st 2011 - 09:14 UTC

  US processor building 180.000 tons storage grain terminal in Uruguay

  

  US agricultural processor Archer Daniels Midland Co said this week it was building a grain export terminal in Nueva Palmira, Uruguay, capable of loading large bulk shipments of corn, wheat, soybeans and soy-meal.