Droughts in the Tietê-Paraná Waterway: Impacts on the Direct, Indirect and Hidden Costs in the Transportation of Soybean

Toloi, Rodrigo Carlo; Freitas, M. P. C. de; Reis, João Gilberto Mendes dos; Vendrametto, Oduvaldo; Neto, Pedro Luiz de Oliveira Costa

doi:10.14807/ijmp.v7i2.418

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“…Considering the waterways, Brazil has more than 39,146 traffic miles, which includes rivers, lakes, and lagoons; however, just over 8,077 miles are used for navigation. For comparison purposes, the United States of America (USA) uses about 13,760 miles (TOLOI et al, 2016).…”

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Road transport infrastructure: a longitudinal case study (2009-2017)

Oliveira

Schirrmeister

Zatta

et al. 2019

Ind. Jour. Manag. & Prod.

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This article investigates the economic gains with the reduction of logistic costs after the asphalt pavement of the highway MT 235 for a Brazilian crystal sugar and alcohol industry. Investment in infrastructure is an attribute that increases economic growth and increases the competitiveness of companies. As far as road transport infrastructure is concerned, the problems are not limited to a specific area, but stretches of highways, which link urban transportation and ports to the generation and transmission of electricity, among others. Only 12.2% of Brazilian highways are paved. This work is the result of a longitudinal case study with participant observation, in a time line from 2009 to 2017. It was possible to identify that, after improvements in road transport infrastructure, the asphalt pavement of the highway MT 235 made possible a gain in travel time and a decrease in logistics costs, which led to the closure of the activities of one of the subsidiaries of the company studied, located in Manaus (Amazonas), in 2009. With the benefits of the asphalt pavement of the MT 235, in 2017 we found that sales volume increased 650% in relation to 2011, logistics costs have been significantly reduced in relation to gross revenues, maintaining an average of 11.58%. In 2017, the logistic costs of the company studied were 12.61% versus 20.7% from the group of Brazilian agribusiness companies. The findings show that investments in road transport infrastructure are crucial when it comes to fostering trade and competitiveness of domestic products in international markets, by reducing logistics costs.

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“…According to Assis, Marchetti and Dalto 2017 Counterpoint is the use of waterways which is an essential means of transport for products with low added value and non-expressive costs (TOLOI et al, 2016).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Road transport infrastructure: a longitudinal case study (2009-2017)

Oliveira

Schirrmeister

Zatta

et al. 2019

Ind. Jour. Manag. & Prod.

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“…Approximately 65,2% of the domestic supply in Brazil comes from this matrix (Ministério de Minas e Energia, 2018), being highly dependent on the regional rainfall regime. Other inconveniences, such as fires, agricultural damage, respiratory health diseases and the disablement of waterways (Toloi et al, 2016) are also more common during shortage periods and are aggravating factors. Large precipitation deficits associated with drought periods, such as those that occurred during the summer of 2014 and 2015, have led to a decrease in the level of water supply and hydroelectric power plants dams in the SEB being at extreme levels never seen before (e.g., Watts, 2015;Nobre et al, 2016).…”

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Summer dry events on synoptic and intraseasonal timescales in the Southeast Region of Brazil

Bier

Ferraz

Ambrizzi

2022

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Dry events occurring in the Southeast Region of Brazil (SEB) during the summer (rainfall season) have been in evidence in the last years, mainly due to previous extreme events in the 2013/14 and 2014/15 seasons. Drought analyses are usually carried out with monthly data. Here our methodology addresses the issue with daily data in order to generate a thorough analysis. Dry events were evaluated for different homogeneous precipitation sub-regions within the SEB, over 37 December-February (DJF) seasons and with two different timescales of duration: synoptic (5-9 days) and intraseasonal (≥10 days). Two main distinct dynamic patterns were found for dry events in southern and central-northern parts of SEB, respectively, but no major differences were identified for the different timescales of occurrence. Southern events were characterized by a stationary ridge acting over the whole southern South America, making the transient systems approximation to southern SEB difficult. At the same time, this pattern showed a northern-shifted South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ) configuration. In the central-northern events, a high pressure centered between the South and Southeast regions of Brazil was associated with the dryness conditions. An anomalous southward shift of meteorological systems characteristic of the South American summer was also verified for these events. Over the South Atlantic, an opposite SST anomaly configuration was identified between southern and central-northern events.

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