Mayor Martin Buzzi said the goal is to forge a technological and scientific exchange between Chubut and Canada. (Photo: Chubut.gov.ar/Stock File)

Commercial mission targets Canada

ARGENTINA
Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 00:10 (GMT + 9)

The mayor of Comodoro Rivadavia, province of Chubut, Martin Buzzi, is heading a commercial mission to Canada in a bid to favourably position the Patagonian city and seal business deals with foreign investors.

The Argentine official hopes to close collaboration agreements with Canada to create the San Jorge Gulf Marine Observatory, within the framework of the Austral Sea Innovation and Development Centre pursued by the municipality.

The idea is that the oceanographic observatory facilitate the acquisition of buoys, in an effort to generate data and significant data so that the wild capture of marine resources is of a sustainable nature, making activities such as fishing, mariculture and tourism compatible, El Patagonico reports.

The buoys will foster the study and modelling of the gulf coasts. Later on, they will be built locally and commercialised across the continent.

The delegation headed by Buzzi consists of Chubut executives, and another one of its goals is to obtain a technological and scientific exchange between that Argentine province and Canada.

“It is an important commercial mission. Some time ago, we led the Aeolian development in Argentina from the city, and now we are going to lead the area of sea development with the manufacture of buoys and other technological instruments,” the mayor said.

“Comodoro [Rivadavia] is going to lead the development of the sea industry associated with technology and innovation,” he added.

One of the objectives of the management “is to consolidate productive diversification” and another is “to spur scientific development and generate opportunities for production and commercialisation in that area” with Canada.

The municipality anticipates the formation of an international team made up of Argentine and Canadian scientific experts originating from the National Patagonia University of San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB), the Natural Patagonia Foundation (FPN), the National Directorate of the Antarctic (DNA), the Rimouski Institute of Sea Sciences (ISMER), the Maurice Lamontagne Institute (IML) of Quebec and from the corporation that oversees the San Lorenzo Global Observatory (OGSL).

By Analia Murias
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