After decades of under-investment, the infrastructure in Brazil
is finally being effectively expanded and developed, thus, creating
an extremely optimistic scenario for private investments.
Brazil is currently modernizing the entire range of its
transportation matrix as such structure is supposed to sustain the
country's moment as one of the fastest-growing economies in the
world. The economic imperatives of improving efficiency, lowering
costs and attracting private-sector investment entail supplying and
maintaining an adequate internal infrastructure.
In order to provide useful tools to anyone in contact for the
first time with the "infrastructure world" in Brazil,
please find attached a study illustrating, in separate chapters,
four relevant segments of the Brazilian transport sector: airports,
ports, railways and roads. For each of them, we present the (i)
applicable legal rules, (ii) main players involved and (iii)
existing or ongoing projects. By portraying
