Port logistics and territorial dynamics in the south of Espírito Santo and north of Rio de Janeiro: the port as a development vector?
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2016
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Brazil faces serious problems of transport infrastructure which have resulted in a loss of their products competitiveness in the international arena. The modernization efforts, from the 1990s, have been directed to produce changes in the regulatory frameworks with the intention of attracting private investment for large port projects in various parts of Brazil. Our research funded by CNPQ, National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development, is dedicated to analyze the conditions of installation and for operation of some enterprises in the region between the southern of Espírito Santo and the northern of Rio de Janeiro, an area currently affected by four projects, some in operation and others under construction. Specifically, we intend to investigate the facilities’ impacts that those private terminals could produce in the cities of President Kennedy and Anchieta, in Espírito Santo state, and São Francisco do Itabapoana and São João da Barra, in Rio de Janeiro state. This is an interstate area endowed with comparative advantages which makes it attractive for big business: settled as a node of an international transport network – specialized in primary products - this portion of the country has been managed in order to connect Brazil into international trade. In this sense, the port terminals installed in this region, work as nodes of a transnational network that attract the interest of big business. In particular, these municipalities have extensive sparsely populated areas and low cost lands where economic activities with low dynamic, especially cash crops of low profitability, are developed. Moreover, these municipalities lie in a territorial context influenced, directly or indirectly, by oil economy.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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