WATERWAYS TRANSPORTATION, PORTS AND INLAND TERMINALS AT BRAZILIAN AMAZON: an analysis of their roles in public policy territorial

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/geouerj.2014.8197

The Brazilian territory has been undergoing a rapid process of productive structure and regional restructuring, as a result of new business strategies and government to intensify connections and insert Brazilian regions to the movement of global capitalism. So the last years of the XXI century were marked by a series of territorial public policies guided by infrastructure investments in Brazil. One of the areas of infrastructure that had been increased is waterway sector, from various policies, plans and programs, namely: The National Plan of Logistics and Transport(PNLT); the Integration Initiative of Regional Infrastructure South American(IIRSA) and Development Acceleration Program (PAC). The waterway sector have been one of the sectors that more invested, particularly in waterway transport, ports and interiors terminals, especially in Amazon, intended to promote, beyond the international physical integration and defense of the Amazon territory, the increase of the commodities flow, the capital capture and the flow on exchanges relations, to capture foreign currency to the Brazilian Nation State. So, the objective of this study is to analyze the role of the waterway transport, ports and terminals interiors at Brazilian Amazon, inside the “new” strategies of territorial policies and infrastructure projects (PNLT, PAC, IIRSA), for the “Sustainable Development”.