Tag: Uruguay

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 07:18 UTC

  China essential for Uruguay’s “international development”

  

  Uruguay pledged efforts to seek a stronger relationship with Beijing since “China is an essential factor in the international development of Uruguay”, said Vice-President Danilo Astori following an hour long meeting in Beijing with his counterpart Wu Bangguo, president of the National Assembly.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 05:27 UTC

  Uruguay confident in recovering investment grade “within one or two years”

  

  Uruguay whose credit rating was cut to junk in 2002, expects to return to investment grade within two years, central bank President Mario Bergara said. “We are confident that in one or two years we will have investment grade again,” Bergara said at an investors’ conference in New York Monday.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 03:40 UTC

  Uruguay’s wool clip forecasted to drop 20%: less sheep and extreme weather

  

  Uruguay’s wool clip is forecasted to drop 20% in 2010/11 because of a fall in the number of sheep and extreme weather conditions that will represent a loss of almost a kilo of wool per head, according to Alvaro Fossati, president of a sheep farmers association.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 07:14 UTC

  Uruguay: More tourists make Montevideo the main attraction in the first half of 2010

  

  The number of tourists visiting Uruguay during the first half of the year over the same period in 2009, increased 5.5% totalling 1.266.898, while revenue jumped 18.7% in US dollars (878.6 million USD), according to the latest numbers released by the Ministry of Tourism.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 04:52 UTC

  Punta del Este real estate sales reached 1.5 billion USD in 18 months

  

  Sales of real estate in Uruguay’s internationally renowned resort Punta del Este and its area of influence reached almost 1.5 billion US dollars between January first 2009 and the first half of 2010, according to the Tourist Office from the County of Maldonado.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 04:35 UTC

  Uruguayan business delegation visits China to promote trade and investment

  

  Uruguayan Vice-president Danilo Astori and a delegation of sixty businessmen are en route to China for a week long visit to strengthen bilateral relations and further promote trade and investments.

• Monday, August 23rd 2010 - 04:23 UTC

  Uruguay completes twelve OEDC tax information exchange agreements

  

  Uruguay reached this month a tax information exchange agreement with India thus totalling the twelve demanded by the Organization for Economic and Development Cooperation to have the country de-listed from the group that still have to abide and implement internationally agreed tax standards.

• 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.

• Tuesday, August 17th 2010 - 08:58 UTC

  Uruguay: world’s leading consumer of beef with 58.2 kilos per capita per annum

  

  Uruguayans eat an average of 58.2 kilos of beef which makes them the world’s leading consumers per capita, per annum according to the country’s president of the National Meats Institute, INAC, Alfredo Fratti.

• Monday, August 16th 2010 - 03:42 UTC

  Bolivian gas and Paraguayan electricity for a deep sea port in Uruguay

  

  Physical integration particularly in energy and access to the sea were two of the main issues addressed by the presidents of Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia, (Fernando Lugo, Jose Mujica and Evo Morales), during their Sunday meeting in Asunción in the framework of Urupabol, the regional group which brings together the three countries.