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Inter Press Service: A land route to the Pacific, long coveted by Brazil, would not reduce the cost of transporting Brazilian exports to China and other markets in Asia and would not make them more competitive, as advocates of paving roads and building bridges through the Amazon jungle argue.
"It's a myth," said Olivier Girard, basing his assertion on the Competitive North Project, a study by his company, Macrologística, on the transport infrastructure in Brazil's Amazon jungle states.
The study, carried out for......
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Link to the Pacific: Road, Rail or Ship?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 24th, 2010
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