Government diagnosis for transportation points to excess of road transport and logistics failures

The federal government presented this Thursday, the 18th, the Strategic Assessment of the National Logistics Plan (PNL) 2050 with a diagnosis that points to an imbalance in the transport matrix, excessive dependence on road transport, underutilization of railways, bottlenecks in cargo flow, and integration problems in passenger transport. The document also identifies low quality of secondary road networks, saturation of logistics axes, and vulnerability of the system to climate change. The PNL serves to plan the future of Brazil's transport infrastructure in the long term, integrating all modes (road, rail, water, air) to reduce costs, increase efficiency, decrease pollutant emissions, ensure the flow of production, and the movement of the population. The joint work between the Ministry of Transport and the Ministry of Ports and Airports serves as part of the guidelines for investments and modernization of the sector, with goals that extend until 2050. The assessment listed 12 ...