Uruguay

• Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay cattle supplies tight and beef exports down

  

  Uruguay's meat exports in the first nine months of this year totaled 368.662 tons equivalent to 816 million US dollars, compared to 429.376 tons and 919 million US dollars in the same period a year ago, according to the latest release from the country's National Meat Institute of Uruguay (INAC).

• Thursday, November 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay's Botnia plant opening delayed on Spain's request

  At the request of Spain Uruguay at last moment postponed the effective start-up of a 1.2 billion US dollars Finnish built pulp mill which has been at the heart of an acrimonious two-year controversy with neighboring Argentina.

• Monday, October 29th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Uruguay becomes first country to order the “$100 laptop”

  

  The first official order for the so-called “100 US dollars laptop” has been placed by the government of Uruguay which is buying 100,000 of the machines for schoolchildren aged six to 12.

• Thursday, October 25th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine pulp company plans a million tons plant in Uruguay

  

  An Argentine corporation has joined a group of European and Japanese companies that are intent in turning Uruguay into a leading partner in the pulp and paper industry. Celulosa Argentina announced Wednesday it has plans to invest a billion US dollars to produce a million tons of pulp annually.

• Saturday, October 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Portuguese paper maker looking to invest in Uruguay

  

  Portuguese pulp and paper maker Portucel will decide before the end of the year whether it will build a plant in Uruguay, government representatives announced. This would become the fourth pulp mill to be established in Uruguay.

• Saturday, October 20th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Botnia pulp mill to begin production in mid November

  

  Uruguay announced Friday that the Botnia-Orion pulp mill, which has been at the heart of an ongoing bitter controversy with Argentina, is set to begin production in mid November conditioned to the finishing of a bicycle lane and an alternative water intake for the plant.

• Saturday, October 13th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay: mega integrated beef cattle project announced

  

  Uruguayan representatives of Britain's Breeders & Packers announced this week in Montevideo plans for an abattoir with an annual capacity of 320.000 head of cattle bred in feed lots involving investments of over 100 million US dollars.

• Wednesday, October 10th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Argentine anti pulp mill activists marches banned in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay will ban Argentine activists who oppose a pulp mill in Fray Bentos, from marching or organizing concentrations so as to avoid provocations, announced Minister of Interior Daisy Tourné.

• Monday, October 8th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Punta del Este expects 120.000 cruise visitors in 2007/08

  

  Punta del Este, Uruguay's main international seaside resort on the South Atlantic this coming summer season will be receiving 83 cruise vessels calls with an estimated 120.000 visitors, 60% increase over the 2006/2007 season.

• Thursday, October 4th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay September inflation 0.41%; 8.9% in 12 months

  Consumer prices in Uruguay increased 0.41% in September, accumulating 8.67% in the nine months of 2007 and 8.9% in the last twelve months, according to the official Statistics Office, INE.