Argentina to include Malta-flagged ships in a port boycott
The Argentine Confederation of Transportation Workers (CATT) has resolved to include Malta-flagged ships in a port boycott response to the UK’s refusal to negotiate the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands’.The resolution – passed in Buenos Aires – is intended to block British ships from docking in Argentine ports.
The measure, they explained, will not affect all British ships but will be carried out “selectively and without notice,” and warned it could spread “all over Latin America.”
“This boycott will continue. It will take British ships six hours to dock and six hours to leave port. We will continue enacting this measure for an unspecified period of time,” the head of Maritime Workers, Omar Suárez, said.
He said, however, that they would ask for a meeting with Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman so these actions do not overlap with the ones being carried out by the Government via diplomatic channels.
“We want to meet with him so we can work together and avoid interfering with what they are doing at the UN,” he explained.
Suárez then said that the boycott would include British ships “as well as convenient ships,” which would include vessels from Malta, Georgia, Jamaica, Honduras, Sri Lanka and Bermuda.
He made these statements after leaving a CATT meeting led by Hugo Moyano.
Source; Malta Today
