Article: Track record: private companies in Brazil take the lead in railroad revitalization.(Trade Lanes)(Caramuru Alimentos invests in the process)

Once the workhorse of Brazilian industry, railroads have run down over the past few years from lack of investment. Instead of waiting for the government to invest an announced US$2.7 billion to modernize the sector, which marked its 150th birthday last April, the lines' users have beam improving the country's train tracks themselves.

The largest Brazilian-owned grain Processor, Caramuru Alimentos, has invested $39 million over the last few years in infrastructure, $10 million of which bought 10 locomotives and 300 train cars to improve the company's logistical operations.

"Before the government announced this plan, we were already taking action," says ...

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