The Government of the State of Pará Plans Projects That Will Generate 35 Thousand Direct Jobs and Almost 71 Thousand Indirect Jobs
The Government of Pará will invest 2 billion reais over the next two years for various transportation infrastructure works in all areas of the integrated regions of the state. The projects will create around 35,000 direct jobs and nearly 71,000 indirect jobs between 2021 and 2022. The new job positions will be for the construction and implementation of new roads, bridges, and airports.
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The positive balance of job offers is an upward trend that began in the 2019-2020 biennium, when the transportation infrastructure sector generated 8,941 direct jobs and 17,983 indirect jobs.
Logistics:
In addition to the additional investments in the 2019-2020 biennium, which were 1 billion plus the 2 billion in the 2021-2022 biennium, this will be the largest contribution in the history of road transportation in Pará, providing residents with greater logistical development, increased safety, and flexibility.
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The head of the State Department of Transportation (Setran), Adler Silveira, says that there were also investments in ports and airports in the interior of the state, streamlining the allocation of resources across all public state transport modes, ensuring above all greater agility, and primarily safety in the right of citizens of Pará to move freely.
Pavings and Completion of Works:
The state of Pará has 130 highways and 23 secondary roads, with a total length of about 7,700 kilometers, of which more than 52% are areas that the current administration found unpaved.
By 2020, about 58 kilometers of highway were completed and paved, and in 2019, 76 kilometers of highways were constructed and paved, totaling 134 kilometers of new highways in the state.

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