O desafio da infraestrutura logística: um estudo comparativo entre brasil e alemanha

Abstract

Brazil, in its primary exporting cycle, developed a transport system totally focused on the flow of products from the producing poles to the coast, where they would later be sent to their respective demanding countries, the 1929 crisis generating a sudden drop in the prices of exported products forced the industrialization process, strongly influenced by the development of highways, supported by the creation of the automobile and petrochemical sector, neglecting the development of other modes, concentrating economic power in certain regions of the country. In comparison, Germany before the unification of its states created a transport system linking the wealthiest regions of the country together with the development of an efficient and competitive industry making it one of the most important on the European continent. In this way, the Brazilian logistics system is being scrapped, unable to take advantage of the multimodality provided by its geographical characteristics, harming numerous sectors of society. The root of Brazilian logistical bottlenecks are directly related to the absence of long term development plans, diversification of the transport matrix and sudden drops in the percentages of investment in infrastructure over the years, which directly differs from the German profile, influenced by efficient public policies. and the notion of spatial complementarity.