Many people were chilled by the possibility of a new stoppage of truck drivers this year. After all, it’s pretty hard to forget what those ten days in May 2018 were like when the ‘heavy load’ crew turned off their engines. The people in the agribusiness production chains turn and move, resumes the debate on the dependence on road transport, which carries around 65% of all cargo that travels across the country. Instead of a strike by hitchhiker professionals, 2021 brought it at the end, two good news in the area of logistics and infrastructure, an old agenda for agriculture and various other economic activities.
One of them is the approval by the National Congress, first the Senate and then the Chamber, of the Bill 4,199/2020, which institutes the Program to Stimulate Transport by Cabotage, also known as BR do Mar. In general terms, the initiative intends to stimulate the transport of cargo between ports, heating up competition in the sector and lowering costs, in addition to stimulating the updating of the maritime fleet and the naval industry. There are almost 8,000 kilometers of coastline and important stopping points for vessels, but only 11% of cargo transport in Brazil goes through this mode.
The PL is still awaiting presidential approval, but the Ministry of Infrastructure already predicts that in three years the capacity of the maritime fleet dedicated to cabotage could increase by 40%. And that the number of containers transported, which in 2019 was 1.2 million TEUs (acronym for a unit equivalent to 20 feet), will reach 2 million by next year. As long as there is no lack of container, of course, as this was a limiting factor for this year’s exports of agricultural items such as beef and poultry, coffee, cotton and tobacco. You know, if demand for anything grows but availability is inversely proportional, the market will not forgive, the cost will increase.
The second good news was the approval of the Legal Framework for Railways, created by Provisional Measure 1.065/2021, which allows for the expansion of the country’s railway network with private capital and granted through authorization. The National Land Transport Agency (ANTT) has already stamped approval on five projects that will certainly favor the transport of agriculture, as they cross important production hubs. This capillarity of rails tends to multiply even more. There are already on the table of the Ministry of Infrastructure 24 proposals for new railroads that could exceed R$ 100 billion in investments and add almost 7,600 kilometers of railroads.
The news will be even more interesting when the connection between these and other modes is confirmed, optimizing transport in general, which will certainly generate more balance and security, in every way.
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