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The Port of Buenos Aires (Spanish: Puerto de Buenos Aires) is the principal maritime port in Argentina. Operated by the Administración General de Puertos (General Ports Administration), a state enterprise , it is the leading transshipment point for the foreign trade of Argentina .
The Argentine cruiser ARA General Belgrano was sunk on May 2, 1982, by the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War.The sinking of the General Belgrano led to the death of 323 Argentine sailors, [1] [2] almost half of all Argentine casualties during the conflict, [3] [4] and sparked controversy, as the attack occurred outside the exclusion zone established by the ...
Argentina was a replacement for Moore-McCormack's SS Argentina (1929). Argentina and her sister ship, Brasil, used MARAD Design P2-S2-9a.Construction was subsidized by the United States Maritime Administration under title V, sections 501 and 504 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936.
She was the first cruise ship to sink there, [3] after striking an iceberg on 23 November 2007. All passengers and crew were rescued. [4] The ship was commissioned and operated by the Swedish explorer Lars-Eric Lindblad. Its 1969 expeditionary cruise to Antarctica was the forerunner for today's sea-based tourism in that region.
Port Said Stadium disaster: Port Said, Egypt: 71: 23 June 1968 Puerta 12 crush: Buenos Aires, Argentina [70] 66: 2 January 1971 Second Ibrox stadium disaster, stairway crowd crush Glasgow, Scotland: 66: 20 October 1982 Luzhniki disaster, stairway crowd crush Moscow, USSR [71] 61: 1 January 2013 2013 Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium Disaster ...
Port of Quequén (Necochea, Buenos Aires Province) Port Belgrano (Puerto Belgrano, Argentine Navy Base, Buenos Aires Province) Puerto Rosales (Punta Alta, Buenos Aires Province) Port of Ingeniero White (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province) Port Galván (Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province) Port of San Antonio Oeste (San Antonio Oeste, Río Negro)
BUENOS AIRES/SALTA, Argentina (Reuters) - A major outbreak in Argentina of dengue, a mosquito-borne illness that can be fatal, is on track to smash previous records, reflecting wider worry around ...
ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina.