Astarsa
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Astilleros Argentinos Río de La Plata S.A. (mostly known for its acronym ASTARSA, which can be roughly translated as Argentine Shipyards of Río de la Plata) was an Argentine shipyard. Its core business was building and repairing ships and locomotives. It also manufactured pipes, industrial machinery, and tractors. It went out of business in 1994.
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- Instance of
- shipyard
- Country
- Argentina
- Headquarters
- Tigre
- Industry
- shipbuilding
- Legal form
- privately held company
- Image
- Astarsa aerial view 1967.jpg
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- Commons category
- Astarsa
- inception
- 1927-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1994-00-00
- product or material produced
- locomotive
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Astilleros Argentinos Río de La Plata S.A. (mostly known for its acronym ASTARSA, which can be roughly translated as Argentine Shipyards of Río de la Plata) was an Argentine shipyard. Its core business was building and repairing ships and locomotives. It also manufactured pipes, industrial machinery, and tractors. It went out of business in 1994.
== History == In the 1920s the Sociedad Colectiva Hansen y Puccini, predecessor of Astarsa, was founded. The first ship over 1000 tons launched in Argentina was built by Astarsa for Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales (YPF).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Astarsa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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