Installing “train stops” along Brazil’s North-South Railway, a rail axis in the centre of the country that connects the Tocantins and Sao Paulo states, Rumo plans to expand the sale of transport tickets to the country’s largest agricultural producers from 2023 onwards. After winning the railroad concession in 2019, the company set up three terminals, two in Goiás and one in Minas Gerais. Since the operations started at the North-Sul Railway, nicknamed Central Network by Rumo, cargo movement has doubled. Last year, 3.4 million tonnes of soybeans, soy meal, and corn were transported. In 2022, with new partnerships signed to transport sugar and fertilizers, the total volume reached 7.5 million tonnes by November. Although he cannot detail the next steps, Palma says that new partnerships are foreseen and could get off the ground as early as 2023.
Sources: Valor Econômico/Datamar News