The new agency is to be established amidst claims that the country’s waterways are woefully unexploited, which the Ministries of Transport and Planning asserting that Brazil is using less than a third of its total waterway capacity.
“We are working in a restructuring which has one agency looking after fluvial ports and the maintenance of waterways”, said Paulo Sergio Passos, former Minister for Transport.
The plan is part of a national initiative to raise river transportation, as a percentage of Brazilian transportation, up to 29% by 2025. The underutilised waterway sector made up 14% as of 2010, while road transportation comprised 62%, and railways 24%.
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