Source: Valor Econômico
After the large transfer of logistical assets to the private sector in the last two decades - mainly during the government of Jair Bolsonaro -, the country now faces the challenge of finding new ways to raise funds to renew and expand the transport infrastructure, they point out. experts. Paulo Resende, coordinator of the Infrastructure Center at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), notes that the Brazilian privatization program was the largest of all countries during this period, guaranteeing the modernization of the country's highways and airports, for example, but without helping to conservation of road and railway networks in general. Maurício Lima, from the Institute of Logistics and Supply Chain (llos), estimates that the depreciation of Brazil's logistics assets is already around R$100 billion, “after years in which the government invested just 0,1% of GDP in transport structure, when it should invest twenty times more”.
