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The first locomotive of the Recife and São Francisco Railway Company, the second oldest Brazilian railway. Some time before the enacting of Law 641, the banker Irineu Evangelista de Souza requested permission to build a railway connecting the Port of Mauá, in the Bay of Guanabara, to Raiz da Serra. This railway became effectively the first ...
Details of the national rail plan have been postponed until next year, pending the TCU decision. The government's goal is to have 40% of Brazil's freight, which is mostly iron ore, transported by ...
Brazil aims to expand its freight-focused rail system to carry 40% of exports by 2035, up from 17% currently, he said. ... Brazil hopes to attract some 180 billion reais ($36.6 billion) of private ...
Norte Brasil Railway Map of Brazilian rail network, 2016. The Brazilian railway network has an extension of about 30,000 km (18,641 mi). It is basically used for transporting ores. [5] Usually, the railway sector was treated in a secondary way in Brazil, due to logistical, economic or political difficulties to install more railways. The ...
The Trans-Amazonian Railway is a proposed transcontinental railway through the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru.The project was conceived in 2013 and announced in 2015 by Chinese and Bolivian leaders as part of a larger plan to create a Chinese-funded transportation network to support Bolivian imports and exports. [2]
No trains run on these tracks and the cleared path for one of Brazil’s most ambitious infrastructure projects is used only by local cars. Railway to nowhere shows Brazil's infrastructure woes ...
In July 2000, the CND (National Council for Privatization), following the ruling of the TCU (Court of Audit), authorized the release of the feasibility study for the project. [7] The consortium that won the bidding for the high-speed train will, according to the original plan, have six years to complete the stretch between Rio and Campinas.
The North-South Railway connects with the Carajás Railway in Açailândia (MA), which leads to the port of Itaqui.Departing from Porto Franco (MA), it will connect with the Transnordestina Railway, currently under construction by Transnordestina Logística S.A., after implementation of the line to Eliseu Martins (PI), which will provide alternative access to the ports of Suape (PE) and Pecém ...