Two British cruise ships of Princess Cruises and P&O Cruises are rejected by the Argentine port of Ushuaia



The issue of the sovereignty of the Falkland-Falklands islands is having consequences also on the crocieristica activity in the region. Falkland is the official denomination of the Territory overseas of the United Kingdom, nation that in 1833 has declared own sovereignty on this archipelago of the southern Atlantic that instead is called Falklands islands from Argentina, than in its turn of it demands the sovereignty.

In 1982 the contest has led in a war which won from the sent naval team from London, but periodically the issue returns to overturns international as it has happened in recent days when the minister of Foreign countries of Argentina, Héctor Marcos Timerman, has announced that the government of Buenos Aires will denounce to the Security Council and the assembly of the United Nations that which the Argentine executive defines a "militarization" of the islands.

Such announcement, with approximating itself of the thirty-year period of the war, has riacutizzato the tension between the two nations, as it demonstrates also to the prohibition tax to British cruise ships to touch the Argentine coast. The woman governor of the Earth of the Fire, Antarctic and Islands of the Southern Atlantic, Fabiana Ríos, in fact has prohibited to the cruise ship Princess Star of the British company Princess Cruises, that she takes part of the crocieristico group American Carnival Corporation, to yesterday call in the Argentine port of Ushuaia.

In a note the government of the Argentine province, of which Ushuaia it is chief town, has explained that the woman governor has not allowed "the mooring in the port of Ushuaia of a ship fleeting that fly flag of a British colony (the flag of the Princess Star is of the Bermudas, ndr) and that it comes from the Falklands Islands". "The provision - the official notice specifies - is second adopted established how much from provincial law 852, known also as law "Rivero Gaucho", that it prohibits the pause, the refueling and the activities of logistics in the provincial territory to the ships of British flag or convenience". The provincial government has remembered that of the Bermudas is considered a convenience flag.

Same rising are touched to the Adonia cruise ship of British company P&O Cruises, also it of the group Carnival Corporation. Also the Adonia fly flag of the Bermudas and also it came from the Falkland-Falklands when yesterday the landing place to the port of Ushuaia is prohibited them.

An other event that has newly shaken the industry of the cruises, under the reflectors after the tragedy of the shipwreck of Costa Concordia happened at the beginning of this year, is the damage been necessary yesterday in the Indian Ocean to a ship of the same Costa Crociere company, the Costa Allegra who is currently to towing of the fishing boat of French height Trevignon. In the past hours the company has announced that, "against the groundbreaking ones and taken care of verifications carried out with the support of local marine experts, in order to guarantee maximum safety of the hosts on board, will not be possible to carry out the disembarkation of the hosts on the island of Desroches, and therefore is decided that the ship will be hauled until Mahé/Seychelles".

Costa Crociere has explained that "the disembarkation on the island of Desroches does not guarantee the necessary ones and adapted to conditions of safety for the berthing of the ship and the disembarkation of the hosts. Moreover the logistic and hotel supports on the island are not sufficient: this - it has specified the company - would be profitable necessary, after the disembarkation from the ship through nozzles, an immediate transfer on ferries from Desroches to Mahé. Therefore the ship will be hauled until Mahé, also with the support of two tugs that are reaching the ship and that they would allow to increase the speed. The arrival to Mahé currently is previewed in the morning (local time) of thursday 1 March, little hours after the eventual arrival previewed through ferries from Desroches to Mahé".

Costa Crociere has specified moreover that "in order to on board alleviate the uneasiness of the hosts for the difficult conditions, continues connections via helicopter with the ship will guarantee the refueling of food, genres of comfort, flashlights".