Infrastructure Minister States Government Plans R$ 250 Billion in Investments in the Transportation Sector by 2022

Written by Roberta Souza

Published on 06/07/2021 at 15:53

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In Addition To Mentioning Investments, Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Freitas Highlights That Only In The First Half, The Government Delivered 51 Works

On the last day of June 30, in an interview granted to “A Voz do Brasil”, the Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio de Freitas emphasized that the Federal Government aims to reach around R$ 250 billion in investments through concessions in the transport sector by the end of 2022. Also see: R$ 100 billion in investments is projected this year with infrastructure auctions for airports, ports, roads, and railways

Infrastructure Minister Highlights Projects Delivered In The First Half

Only in the first half of this year, 51 transport infrastructure projects were delivered throughout the country by the Federal Government. These projects improve logistics and bring more efficiency and safety to road, rail, air, and waterway transport. The federal investment during this period was over R$ 3 billion in new enterprises and in the resumption of halted works. The balance was announced on Friday (2) by the Ministry of Infrastructure.

During this period, it was possible to deliver the restoration and completion of highways, build port facilities, and invest in airport improvements. In the first six months, R$ 18.89 billion in investments were contracted. Tarcísio also states that one of the ministry’s objectives is to integrate the territory, bring logistics to those who need it, internalize this logistics, give efficiency to those productive centers, and induce development in those less developed regions.

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Highways, Railways, Airports, and Ports

From January to June, 927 kilometers of paved, duplicated, and reconstructed highways were delivered. In 2021, there was a 13.7% increase in cargo transport by railways, and the goal is to reach 2035 with almost 40% of rail transport in total transportation.

In airports, R$ 130 million were invested in improvements at the airports of Foz do Iguaçu (PR) and Navegantes (SC). In ports and waterways, R$ 35 million were employed, with initiatives such as the resumption of operations at the Sobradinho lock on the São Francisco River.

See Details From The Infrastructure Minister’s Interview:

In April of this year, the so-called Infraweek yielded new concessions. How much has Brazil guaranteed in investments this year?

“We have been making significant progress in attracting private investment, which is essential in a fiscal constraint scenario to achieve our goal, which is to reduce the infrastructure gap. The auctions in April were a success. We auctioned 22 airports, one railway, and five port terminals. We closed the month with one highway and, just in April, we contracted R$ 30 billion in new investments. In total, since the beginning of President Bolsonaro’s government, from 2019 to now, 70 assets have been auctioned. There are over R$ 80 billion in contracted investments. This will generate, in the end, a large number of direct and indirect jobs and jobs through income effects.”

Has The Brazilian Concessions Model Proven Attractive To Investors?

“Without a doubt. Investors have praised the way we divide the risk. Our models today, the Brazilian models, are among the most sophisticated in the world, and that is why we have been able to attract investors in infrastructure, exceeding expectations in each auction held.”

Source: Government of Brazil

Infrastructure Minister States Government Plans R$ 250 Billion in Investments in the Transportation Sector by 2022

In Addition To Mentioning Investments, Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Freitas Highlights That Only In The First Half, The Government Delivered 51 Works

Infrastructure Minister Highlights Projects Delivered In The First Half

Highways, Railways, Airports, and Ports

See Details From The Infrastructure Minister’s Interview:

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Infrastructure Minister States Government Plans R$ 250 Billion in Investments in the Transportation Sector by 2022

In Addition To Mentioning Investments, Infrastructure Minister Tarcísio Freitas Highlights That Only In The First Half, The Government Delivered 51 Works

Infrastructure Minister Highlights Projects Delivered In The First Half

Highways, Railways, Airports, and Ports

See Details From The Infrastructure Minister’s Interview:

Dissatisfied with seeing people sleeping on the street, a man named Ryan Donais started building small mobile homes so that homeless people can escape the cold, each equipped with a bed, running water, electricity, and heating.

Workers were opening a modern road in Dover when they found, 6 meters below the asphalt, a 3,500-year-old boat made of stitched oak and plant fibers.

A giant brown band visible from space, approximately 8,850 kilometers long, connected Africa to America in the Atlantic Ocean, and satellites revealed that it is neither land nor pollution, but the largest accumulation of seaweed in the world, which broke records in 2025.

Engineers want to carve through Africa with a giant canal to bring water from the world’s second-largest river to a dying lake on the edge of the Sahara Desert that has already lost 90% of its water.

Consumers eat six times more chicken than in the 1960s, global meat supply quadruples in 60 years, and FAO report reveals the invisible cost on the plate: livestock could drive 80% of the increase in agricultural emissions over the next decade.

Using high-resolution satellite images, archaeologists rediscovered the Egyptian city of Imet, buried for centuries in the Nile Delta, revealing rare multi-story houses, granaries, and a sacred road linked to the cobra goddess Wadjet, from about 2,400 years ago.

Man built a 5-acre lake to raise bass, but after 1,000 days the project turned into a wildlife sanctuary with eagles, deer, ducks, owls, and live cameras that transformed the farm into a biodiversity laboratory.

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Laser that once occupied an entire laboratory now fits on a tiny chip and delivers 147 femtosecond pulses, paving the way for portable atomic clocks, medical diagnostics, and high-precision sensors.

Without a steering wheel, pedals, or driver, a Chinese electric minibus that carries up to six passengers at a maximum of 30 km/h is already operating in cities in China and abroad, and places South America among the markets being observed by the manufacturer.