Paraná: Railway projects are presented to Chinese group that bought TCP

The Governor of Paraná, Carlos Massa Ratinho Junior and technicians of the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Logistics presented short, medium, and long term rail projects in the state to the China Merchants group on 08/07. The company is one of the logistics industry giants and recently purchased the Paranaguá Container Terminal (TCP). The meeting aimed to accelerate the development of projects that will culminate with the Dourados-Paranaguá railway corridor.

According to government studies, about 10m tons circulated by rail in Paraná to its ports in 2018, compared to 43m tons transported by trucks, which shows the imbalance in the flow.

To cope with the growing demand from society, agribusiness, and the need to structure Paraná as a logistics center in South America, medium-term investments foresee an intermodal corridor between Cascavel and Foz do Iguaçu, with foreseeable project hiring and Evetea (Technical, Economic, and Environmental Viability Studies) for this month and launch of the announcement in 2021. The call is budgeted at about R$1.6bn.

The project foresees the transportation by water and land between Foz do Iguaçu and Cascavel by the new east perimeter, part of the millionaire project of the second bridge between Brazil and Paraguay, besides the rail transportation, which will materialize expressive increase of the trains and cargo in western Paraná, increasing employment generation and the state’s GDP. The change in the largest dry port in the country, in Cascavel, through which 150,000 trucks pass per year, will allow unprecedented and rapid integration between the three routes.

The long-term project is to solidify the Dourados-Paranaguá link, with the integration of the Foz do Iguaçu-Cascavel intermodal stretch, which may bring unprecedented export potential to the State. There will be the Cascavel-Guarapuava-Irati-Lapa-Litoral lines, covering a strategic region for the country and the continent. The new connection would be of 1,000 kilometers.

The idea is that 50m tons of cargo, between exports and imports, will be transported by this extension, including corn, soy, and meat, with the return of fertilizers and limestone from China.

The Chinese group also got to know the Paraná highway concession project, which foresees the expansion of the highway network from the current 2,500 kilometers to 4,100 kilometers, linking important federal and state highways to the port of Paranaguá.

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