Brazil’s Response to Lower Commodity Prices: Will Infrastructure Improvements Support Further Expansion? by Michael Cordonnier (2015)
“Infrastructure Improvements Needed to Support Further Expansion
• First concerted effort to improve Brazil’s infrastructure
• Highways, railroads, barges, ports
• “Northern Arc” of ports most significant development
• Four ports currently handle 77% of Brazil’s soybean exports – Santos, Paranagua, Rio Grande, and Sao Francisco
• That is about to change
• In the future half of Brazil’s soybean exports may head north instead of south…”
