Argentinean Ports
2 Feb 2011 Argentinean port strike to end tonight or early tomorrow.
1/29 Argentinean port strike enters third day, ships loaded with fruit not leaving, spreading to other ports. Port security also on strike.
Last year
27 August, 09 Strike at Puerto Nuevo terminals remained paralyzed today by stevedores for the sixth day in Buenos Aires. Perishable cargo piling up.
Why:-Two unions with difference of opinions, SUPA (represents longshoremen) stevedores union and a crane operators' union (which has paralyzed the port) within rival Fempinra over the affiliation of the RTG and gantry crane drivers. So far 1.25 million pesos in operating losses.
Exolgán terminal just south of Buenos Aires has not been affected and running smoothly.
No date set for an end to strike.
Last year
17 Nov 08 Argentina, Buenos Aires port.
Unions in Buenos Aires have taken over the fish exports out of Buenos Aires. Somehow the Union have all the out going ship manifestos and are stopping all fish exports. Only Coast Guard and Customs have access to this usually. 8 Million dollars worth of fish is sitting on the docks.
9/2/08 Argentina, Buenos Aires, six-day-old pay protest against leading exporters to the port of Quequen, deepening a strike that threatens to disrupt shipments.Expected to start striking in Quequen port in the coming hours
Argentina is the world's top exporter of soy oil and soymeal and a leading supplier of soybeans, corn and wheat. Bunge is among the biggest exporters. Most of Argentina's grains and vegetable oils are shipped from the Rosario area ports, followed by Quequen and Bahia Blanca.
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