Freight forwarders have to be careful how they get stuff to their customers, for they might wind up shipping stuff via an adversary of your customer. For instance, shipments heading to Israel had best avoid sending the shipment through Arab countries hostile to Israel.
A lot of folks may have forgotten that the British and the Argentineans are not on good terms due to their dispute over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic near Argentina; the British grabbed custody of the Falklands in the 1830 and reversed an Argentinean invasion of what the Argentineans call the Malvinas in 1982. When governments are in tough shape, they can sometimes look to create a foreign policy crisis to rally public support, and the current Argentinean government, who lost control of the legislature last fall, is looking to protest British oil development in the Falklands.
Getting caught up in the middle of this is a Danish bulk carrier carrying oilfield equipment that was in the port of Campana near Buenos Aires; the Danes and the Argentinean producers of the pipes claim that they were heading for the Mediterranean, but the government states that the ship was heading to the Falklands’ main city of Port Stanley.
Whether the Danish ship was heading to the Falklands or they were just used as a convenient tool to gin up nationalist support reminds to be seen; meanwhile, trucking logistics firms may need to tread carefully in that region and steer clear of Argentinean ports.
Sources: http://www.handyshippingguide.com/shipping…s-shipping_1288
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/artic…j3BTCewpI_bplPg
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