A study by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), based on data from the National Land Transport Agency (ANTT), indicates that 30% of Brazil’s rail network is unusable and therefore unusable. Another 23% are without operational conditions.
The conclusions of the study entitled “Rail transport: putting competitiveness on the rails”, will be delivered to candidates for the Presidency of the Republic.
In the research, the CNI emphasizes that the suggestion is that the way to overcome the bottlenecks in the sector necessarily requires an increase in system connectivity, mesh size and average train speed.
For the experts, the country’s rail network is a system with specific deficiencies and difficulties involving the concessionaires, in addition to the lack of market competition and the interconnection of the meshes. According to the study, the characteristics of concession contracts signed in the 1990s generated these problems.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.