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Latin American Economy & Business - August 2015 (ISSN 1741-7430)
Brazil-Peru: Big infrastructure – the trans-oceanic railway
The trans-oceanic railway, known in Spanish as the Corredor Ferroviario Bioceánico Central, designed to provide an east-west freight transport link stretching across South America from Santos or Açu on Brazil’s Atlantic coast to Ilo on Peru’s Pacific coast, is nothing if not ambitious. Big infrastructure projects can deliver major benefits, but also struggle with major problems. It remains to be seen how the costs and benefits of this one will play out.
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