Poor transport routes make crop flow more expensive by 37% – 10/27/2023 – Panel SA

The transport route for 39% of national agricultural production, the Center-North logistics corridor generates a 37% increase in transport costs due to the persistent lack of investment and overload on highways.

The report is from Ibap (Brazilian Institute of Public Administration) and was carried out at the request of the Parliamentary Front for Public Administration.

The survey also shows that, last year, trucks that traveled along this road used an additional 41.5 million liters of diesel due to the condition of the roads. This alone represented R$189 million in additional expenses for transporters.

This increase is reflected in competitiveness and in the consumer’s pocket, who ends up suffering from the price transfer.

The corridor is mainly responsible for the flow of harvests from Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia, a region known as Matopiba, part of Pará, Mato Grosso and Goiás.

In Tocantins, for example, the estimated production growth jumped from 6.5 million tons in the 2021/2022 harvest to 7.8 million, without the roads having followed this jump, which placed more trucks on the highways to guarantee flow .

This week, the state governor, Wanderlei Barbosa (Republicanos/TO), demanded from the federal government investments in the Araguaia and Tocantins river basins, which would be complementary to the BR-153 and the North-South railway — pillars of the Center-North axis.

Barbosa participated in a meeting at Ibap with the Minister of Ports and Airports, Silvio Costa Filho (Republicanos/PE), and with Renan Filho (MDB-AL), Minister of Transport.

With Silvio Costa, the governor announced a technical cooperation agenda to make the Araguaia-Tocantins waterway viable.

At the Ministry of Transport, he requested the speeding up of the BR-010 works, institutional support for the feasibility of TO-500, Transbananal, and the Palmas Ring Road.

The Ibap survey also indicates that, with investments in locks, dams, demolition works, dredging and signaling in different basins, it would be possible to resolve navigability issues on the São Francisco, Araguaia, Tocantins and Tapajós rivers, adding economically navigable and movement stretches of loads or people.

With Diego Felix

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