In spite of the global slowdown, the cruise industry in South America seems to be steaming ahead according to the latest estimates from Buenos Aires Port, which for the coming 2009/2010 season is expecting 143 calls.
The Gibraltar Port Authority is participating in the Seatrade Europe Conference and Exhibition, recognised as Europe’s leading meeting place for the cruise, ferry, river-cruise and super-yacht industries.
A re-enactment of Charles Darwin global scientific expedition in the eighteen hundreds was launched on September first from Plymouth, England and should be calling in Montevideo, Uruguay at the end of October.
LAN Chile’s Argentine subsidiary announced an increase in flights from Buenos Aires to the Argentine port city of Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego to meet peak season demand for leisure cruises to Antarctica.
Brazil’s Rio do Janeiro and Argentina’s Buenos Aires open and close the Forbes list of the world’s ten happiest cities according to a recent survey conducted by policy advisor Simon Anholt and market researcher GfK Custom Research North America.
Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro city will build the largest marine aquarium in Latinamerica, municipal authorities announced on Wednesday. To be named AquaRio, the aquarium is part of a plan to revitalize the city.
”The global situation of the air transport sector is a disaster” said Giovanni Bisignani, IATA’s Director General and CEO in a speech to JURCA, the association of airlines operating in Argentina.
An estimated 1.600 to 1.700 vessels cross the strategic Magellan Strait annually according to the Chilean Navy that last week celebrated the 161th anniversary of its patrolling task along the country’s coastline of almost 6.500 kilometres.
The Chilean cruise company Cruceros Australis which operates from Punta Arenas is having a third vessel built in Valdivia which should be operational for the 2010/2011 season, according to Branco Ivelic, manager of Cruise Operations.
The Japanese couple Kyoto and Hiroshi Yamao won on Saturday night the Buenos Aires World Tango Salon category during a competition with the participation of sixty couples from the Americas, Europe and Asia.