One of the greatest development challenges for Brazil lies in its infrastructure; be it its communication, information technology, energy, civil construction or transportation systems. Financial resources is available like never before, high end technology is today offered by national and foreign intelligence production and services organizations, and public policies are strategically steaming for economic growth.
But Brazil is a culturally complex nation. Its vast territory and historical colonization process, and later dictatorial government have led the country into a corrupt political structure and society. And here is where foreign investor might find hardest to deal with, when looking for good investment opportunities. Younger generations strive for better educational and health systems, higher quality of life, and higher standards for moral and ethical values, but they are still very much conducted by a misleading and alienating mass media, along with a limited communication system.
In shorter words, it is my advice to foreign investors to hire highly qualified and ethical professionals for assistance in their business deals in the country. Hence my passionate approach to International Relations in Brazil, when in this article I speak about the improvement of its transportation system as indeed one of the top priority issues.
Economic growth means a stronger and more productive industry, and therefore logistics is very necessary for establishing efficient supply and distribution chains. The Ministry of Transportation is the federal governmental institution who coordinates national transport infrastructure expansion and maintenance through the National Department of Transport Infrastructure. Brazil is still highly dependent on its road system for national distribution, which holds the country in a position of a highly expensive and oil dependent internal logistics chain.
There are strong public policies for rail road expansion, urban metro systems, and air and sea ports expansion and improvement calls, and we can see a lot more work getting done nowadays through PAC – Growth Acceleration Plan and growing investments due to the major international events hosting in the near future like the World Cup 2014 and the Olympic Games in 2016.
Bellow is a few official sources for strategic investment planning, available in portuguese (please use google translator for better understanding).
Aldeota Global 