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Stories for April 7th 2013

  • Sunday, April 7th 2013 - 23:58 UTC

    Brazil planning agency to manage fluvial ports, waterways and locks

    Sailing along the Amazon basin still very much in the making

    The administration of President Dilma Rousseff is working on the creation of a new agency which will be responsible for Brazil’s fluvial ports and terminals, waterways and locks. The ‘Hidrobras’ project is being drafted by the Ministries of Transport and Planning and will look after shipping in the fluvial system, “which is currently exploited far below its possibilities and potential”.