MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Brazil auctions concession of highway that transports 45 million tons of grains annually
Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht on Wednesday was awarded a 30-year concession to operate and maintain a stretch of the BR-163 federal highway, a major road in the western state of Mato Grosso, also known as 'soy road' because of the millions of tons of grains and oilseeds that are transported annually. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAny contracts to move transport infrastructure away from 3rd World is good.
Nov 29th, 2013 - 06:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Let's hope that Odebrecht can operate without the stain of contract-corruption.
@ 1 GeoffWard2
Nov 30th, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Or building the highway on poorly prepared subsoil leading to collapse: see the crane fatalities: it’s the same company.
To build major roads with compact sub-basement and basement, substantial surfacing, with attention to run-off and high fluvial flows off gradients such that wash-outs do not happen ... the ancient Romans were able to do it ...
Nov 30th, 2013 - 06:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In Brasil, even the country's main motorway between Rio - SP - Campinas gets washed-out over hundreds of metres following 'tropical' rainstorms.
The authorities know the technologies exist, they know which are the specialist (foreign) companies, they know the cost per metre, but they don't do it or learn the way to do it.
Perhaps there would be insufficient in the pot to do it properly once the back-handers are distributed to all the politicians, etc.
@ 3 GeoffWard2
Dec 01st, 2013 - 05:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil really has no future if this systemic theft, and seemingly acceptance of it by most people, is not stopped once and for all.
But it will never happen in our lifetime, will it?
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