The Brazilian railroads and the recent expansion to the Center-West Region of Brazil / As ferrovias brasileiras e a expansão recente para o centro-oeste

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2007

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This research is intended to investigate and discuss the expansion of the transportation projects in the Center-West Region of Brazil and its relation with the process of agricultural expansion. The research was made through consultations to specialized magazines, and texts on economic research. Brazil shows serious problems of infrastructure, that harms its productive capacity and prevents its economic growth. At present, one of the most perceptible bottom necks, that prevents economic growth is the need of enlargement and modernization of shipmentstransport in order to address agricultural and industrial production with higher quality. It is not enough to obtain consecutive records regarding production of grains and minerals if there are no adequate and safe resources for their release to ports and final consumers in a reasonable time. For more than 50 years, Brazil prioritized the road system and today suffers with the absence of financial resources to maintain the existing roads and to extend routes to regions most remote from the main economic centers. Even after privatizations, highways continue precarious and with no perspectives of improvements in the short term. The road transport has its advantages, but maintenance and enlargement costs are more elevated, especially when considered the expenses with policing and traffic engineering, besides environmental problems caused by the deforestation and pollution in big cities. The railway modal has a much bigger capacity of shipment, contemplates the continental needs of Brazil, and its cost of maintenance is reduced. Railroads were forgotten for barely half century, and the 30.000 kilometers of railroads in operation at present are insufficient to attend the national demand. The current railway mesh is responsible for the transport of approximately 23% of the countrys production at more affordable costs. After railroadss privatizations, new investments from the private sector generated 94% increase in the system productivity in the last decade. The enlargement of the railway mesh needs more political will from goverment and society, so rails can have bigger representativeness in the transportsmatrix in Brazil.

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privatization railroads middle west soja centro-oeste logistics logística soybean privatização ferrovias

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