Brazilian infrastructure has evolved a lot in recent years. On the basis of everything is agribusiness and legal certainty. Private investments in the sector alone in the last year reached almost $ 260 billion, beating the record. And all this to meet agricultural demand, according to information given by the president of CS Infra, Fernando Quintas, during participation in the panel New Routes and Infrastructure, on Thursday afternoon (05) in what happens on June 5 and 6, at the Allianz Parque stadium, in São Paulo.
According to the executive, the total invested 78% come from private capital. “This only happens thanks to the evolution of the legal guarantees established by the legal frameworks, which gave the security that the investor was missing to put their capital with lower risks,” said the executive.
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The president of CS Infra says that technical feasibility studies of the projects, accompanied by and TCMS (municipal courts) also helped mitigate the risks, avoiding penalties.
In addition to the legal guarantees, the evolution of projects with private public partnerships (PPPs) gave the final push to make long -term projects unleashed. “Legal certainty and partnerships have brought the trust that investors needed and this tends to grow in the coming years,” says Quintas, citing that investments are expected to reach $ 450 billion by 2030.
The new contributions should serve not only the south and southeast, but also the North and the Northeast, with the expansion of the rail and road network. “Exactly the promising regions, where PPPs make perfect sense, because you can draw projects in places without so much initial demand, establishing a complementary revenue made with government payments,” explains the president of CS Infra, a company that manages ports, highways and is part of the Simpar () group, which makes R $ 8.89 billion a year with their businesses such as (), JSL () and ().
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VLI Logistics General Commercial Manager Gabriel Fonseca, a panel moderator on infrastructure, added that distribution is such a fundamental point for agribusiness precisely because it represents about 30% of the sector’s cost. “Agrobusiness is hand in hand with logistics,” he said.
Largest port of the southern hemisphere
The data from the port of Santos give the exact dimension of this infrastructure interdependence with agribusiness. There are 58 terminals in the 16 kilometers of acostible quay, which make it the largest port in the southern hemisphere, according to the president of the port of Santos, Anderson Pomini. “In 2024, a record volume of 179.8 million tons of cargo passed, most of them linked to agribusiness,” says the executive, who also participated in the panel.
According to Pomini, the projection for 2030 is for the port of Santos to move up to 300 million tons, which will require new billionaire investments. To get this plan out of the paper, the $ 1.1 billion contribution is already planned just to build and improve the internal roads of Porto, and another $ 6 billion in partnership with the federal government for quay extensions. “On September 1st we will be in the PPP auction to the port of Santos and there are still many investments that will need to be made by the state to expand immigrants,” he says.
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The panel on the new infrastructure routes was part of the, which expects to bring together 20,000 participants on the two days of the event. Considered a meeting place for debate on agribusiness trends, innovations and challenges, the meeting has a program for 35 panels and 100 speakers distributed in three simultaneous stages. Almost 200 companies in the sector must be present. In addition to the content of the lectures, the event has a business, tasting and gastronomy and concert classes, with artists such as the pair Fernando & Sorocaba.
