Icy Departure.THE REFRIGERATED re·frig·er·ate tr.v. re·frig·er·at·ed, re·frig·er·at·ing, re·frig·er·ates 1. To cool or chill (a substance). 2. To preserve (food) by chilling. CONTAINERS THAT ONCE rolled into Argentine ports to pick up pampa-fed beef are quickly becoming a memory. In May, after the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and Europe banned beef imports from Argentina, container lines began rerouting their equipment to Brazil and Uruguay. If the disease spreads in the region, the containers could be reassigned again, even though chilled, off-the-bone beef exports have not been proven to transmit the disease. Since refrigerated containers are costlier to handle, shippers must keep them moving. Although fruit and other perishables are also shipped in the containers, those cargoes are not as valuable as refrigerated meat exports from Argentina. Walter Collet, general manager of Exolgan, one of the largest container terminals in the Buenos Aires Buenos Aires (bwā`nəs ī`rēz, âr`ēz, Span. bwā`nōs ī`rās), city and federal district (1991 pop. port area, told reporters he expected the farm plague to cut the shipping volume by 3,000 to 5,000 containers from his terminal alone this year. Foot-and-mouth disease foot-and-mouth disease, highly contagious disease almost exclusive to cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and other cloven-hoofed animals. It is caused by a virus that was identified in 1897. has devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. Argentina's beef industry. By May, some 8,000 meat industry workers had been laid off in Argentina because of the outbreak. |
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