According to the press communiqué a Spanish flagged trawler that operates in Falkland Islands waters and was heading to Montevideo to unload 700 tons of fish was denied “innocent pass” through Argentine waters. And finally the vessel had to unload its cargo in the Uruguayan port. Costa do Cabo is licensed by local company Bold Ventures, and owned by Elvio Cofre and Amanda Forster.
Cofre said it was inconvenient for the operators to take the longer route and it had caused increased cost. He said that the argentine blockade would not have a great impact and would possibly have a positive outcome if the facilities were to become available for vessels to do all their business here in the Islands instead of in Uruguay.
He told that he was now awaiting an account from the skipper of Costa do Cabo to establish whether he had initiate. He has instructed our partners to avoid the Argentine EEZ at all costs and minimise any contact with them. As per UN Convention on the Law of the Sea innocent pass, refers to ships, has rights to enter and pass through a coastal territorial waters by maintaining peace and order.
