The ARA Frigate “Libertad”, which was scheduled to arrive at the Buenos Aires Naval Station at 9 this Saturday to end its 50th instruction trip, was stranded at the height of the Buenos Aires city of La Plata waiting for a union claim to be resolved in the portreported the Argentine Navy.
The unit, under the command of ship captain Carlos Pedro Schavinsky Trinchero, leads the midshipmen in commission who are members of promotions 150 and 151 of the Naval Command Ranking; 85 and 86 of the Marine Infantry Ranking and 106 and 107 of the Professional Corps, Quartermaster Ranking, of the Military Naval School, were scheduled to arrive at the Naval Station at 9.
The crew of the Frigate is made up of 326 people, including 57 women, and is made up of 28 officers, 92 commissioned midshipmen and 191 non-commissioned officers.
Nevertheless, upon reaching the roadstead, in La Plata, they learned of the surprise start of a strike by the port tugboats guildwhich forced them to stop their march to the port, since “the tugboats are not working,” the sources explained.
This Navy training ship fulfilled -once again- its mission of completing the professional training of commissioned midshipmen, “contributing to increasing their nautical knowledge and training them in the culture of teamwork and in the development of skills of leadership,” the Navy explained in a press release.
For its part, the Ship Drivers’ Union (Siconara) announced on Friday night on social media that “after extensive negotiations and in the face of the intransigence of the business sector, regarding the request of the unions for wage recomposition in the port tugboat sector,” the sector unions decreed “a total cessation of activities on the ships that make up the FENA and CNA in its entirety, starting at 8” on Friday.
“This measure will be maintained until official communication from the union sector,” added the union.
The itinerary began on April 30 and lasted 5 months, traveling 22,038 nautical miles, which is equivalent to going around the world around the line of Ecuador
The crew of the Frigate is made up of 326 people, including 57 women, and is made up of 28 officers, 92 commissioned midshipmen and 191 non-commissioned officers.
In this edition sailed on board guests from training institutes of the Argentine Navy (from the “Almirante Storni” and “Almirante Brown” Naval Lyceums, from the National Nautical School), from other Armed Forces (Argentine Army and Argentine Air Force) ; of security forces (National Gendarmerie and Argentine Naval Prefecture), of the National Foreign Service Institute (ISEN); and 12 foreign guests from the navies of Germany, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru.
During the itinerary, which began on April 30 and lasted 5 months, he traveled 22,038 nautical miles, which is equivalent to going around the world around the line of Ecuador.
The Frigate Libertad was 148 days away from its station, of which it sailed 113 and remained 35 in ports of eleven cities in America and Europe: Fortaleza (Brazil), Castries (Santa Lucia), Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic), Havana ( Cuba), Veracruz (Mexico), Baltimore (United States of America), Dublin (Ireland), Saint Malo (France), Toulon (France), Cadiz (Spain) and Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
