A Modernização da hidrovia do Paraguai e as transformações no espaço regional: o caso da microrregião geográfica do Baixo Pantanal

Abstract

This research had as the mainly purpose to verify the changes in the regional modernization progress of Paraguay River waterway, promoted by the public transport politics in Mato Grosso do Sul state, since 1999 to 2006. The Paraguay River was the stage of federal and state government investments, besides private capital, to improve the water transportation. In the politics and the businessman’s point of view, it understands that modernize the logistic process transport provide in continuing growth of production and business goods. In the purpose of research, after searching dates, information and a period of studies; it started building the case. In the practice research it was visited the towns involved in the waterway. In this research’s contact, we can see and write through the interviews and pictures resources, the marks of good work between State and private capital. We also understood how the mechanism of the way information and merchandising of goods integrated villages with big industrialise centers, it formed a complex networking, the role of infrastructure transport is a very important key in the system, toward the exploitation of energy sources in distant regions from the producers centers, made clear the role played by each locality in the international labor division.