Why Brazilian ports will stay on the slow boat

Brazil’s notoriously backward port infrastructure – which helped lower the country’s rank in the World Bank’s 2011 Doing Business report by 16 places to a weak 114th out of 183 countries in the “Trading Across Borders” category – has been justly criticized for its red tape, steep costs, constant delays and inaccessible ports. Unfortunately, the Dilma administration’s recent appointment of Leonidas Cristino to head the Ports Secretariat (SEP) seems unlikely to herald a new era of...

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