Overview of Major Brazilian Air Cargo Terminals

Acta Scientiarum. Technology, 2014

This paper analyzes the main economical and technical aspects of the Brazilian Transportation infrastructure, focusing on the roadway cargo transportation sector. It brings information, reflections and technical considerations concerning political, planning and strategic issues, addressing to the future of the sector and also the possibilities of growth. Summarizing, this paper presents, based on authors like Eric Hobsbawn and Amarthya Sen, a contemporaneous overview of the infrastructure of the Brazilian roadway cargo system, considering the impact of the globalization and government policies, resulting from forecasting growth of the logistics and transportation sector in Brazil.

2016

ABSTRACT. This paper analyzes the main economical and technical aspects of the Brazilian Transportation infrastructure, focusing on the roadway cargo transportation sector. It brings information, reflections and technical considerations concerning political, planning and strategic issues, addressing to the future of the sector and also the possibilities of growth. Summarizing, this paper presents, based on authors like Eric Hobsbawn and Amarthya Sen, a contemporaneous overview of the infrastructure of the Brazilian roadway cargo system, considering the impact of the globalization and government policies, resulting from forecasting growth of the logistics and transportation sector in Brazil.

This article aims to present a brief profile about the array of freight transportation in Brazil with emphasis on road, rail and water transport; its current condition, use and future perspectives; relating them to the grid and more specifically, the consumption of various fuels. Done in parallel, it fits the concept of modal combination based on maintenance costs, service level and particularly, in mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs). In conclusion, we present medium-term projects that should contribute to that inter-modality is effectively used in the country, helping to boost the infrastructure of transport and the distribution of products on the rise in the Brazilian economic activity, such as soybeans, minerals and fuels, and at the same time, encourage the reduction targets of GHG emissions based on energy-efficient fuel use, with an emphasis on water transport, using the immense potential of navigable rivers and the coastline of Brazil.

International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, 2010

The aim of this paper is to design a sustainable logistics platform concept based on different applications of global airport logistics platforms and industrial ecology principles. This concept has been developed for a southern Brazilian application [Campinas Metropolitan Region, São Paulo state]. The design guidelines establish a balance between the logistics activities and the environmental constraints on business viability.

Cargo handling in private and public ports is one of the main activities in trade logistics. A different adaptation on container operations is required, as it plays a different role in terms of performance in port operations in Brazil. The use of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is applied to analyze the relative efficiency in terms of container operations in the Brazilian port terminals. The objective pursued was to identify the different performances of container handling in Brazilian ports and to show possible improvements for less effective ports. The research points out to the changes required in some ports in Brazil in relation to their inefficiencies.

This article presents a procedure for establishing and ranking the areas that are candidates for building truck cargo terminals, based on the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and considering location factors, with focus on accessibility considerations, expressed by indicators derived from graph theory. Accessibility is thus defined objectively for each area, contemplating its needs regarding production or consumption of cargo or promotion of intermodal transport of products. The proposed approach determines the most suitable area for locating the terminal according to the perception of each actor participating in the process as well as the set of actors, seeking to conjugate conflicting interests and facilitate convergence and the establishment of negotiated solutions. With this, it provides a more transparent and participative decision-making process and supplies basic elements for government bodies to formulate their socioeconomic development policies. The application of this procedure in the greater Rio de Janeiro metropolitan region demonstrated its feasibility in developing countries and in contexts with restricted data, funding and planning.

Sustainability

Urban freight transport is a challenge for Brazilian cities due to the lack of adequate planning for freight flow movement. Public managers also show negligence and a lack of awareness when dealing with urban logistics. Decision-support data on urban freight transport are still scarce, despite being of fundamental value to economic development. With this in mind, this paper presents problems and solutions regarding urban freight transport in Brazilian cities. Data were obtained through a survey conducted in nine cities and analysed by means of descriptive statistics and the successive intervals method. Additionally, a cluster analysis was performed to identify patterns regarding the typical characteristics of each city in order to compare and generalise the perception of retailers regarding problems and solutions at the national level. The results indicate divergent opinions among retailers from different cities, even from cities with similar socioeconomic profiles and urban dynamics. The municipalities which demonstrated the most similarities were (i) Betim and Niteroi, in the Southeast of Brazil; (ii) Palmas and Quixada, in the North and Northeast, respectively; and (iii) Palmas and Caruaru, also in the North and Northeast. The results reinforce the importance of studying the local context and involving stakeholders in the process of planning urban logistics solutions.

2009

The decision-making process regarding the choice of containerized cargo shipment port involves objective and subjective factors in terms of physical, structural, and operational port conditions, which are determinant for exportation logistics. Its complexity and relevance for shippers' performance recommend careful and rational approaches. In this sense, this study focused the decision process applied to the main ports in Southern and Southeastern Brazil, more specifically Vitória-ES, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Itaguai-RJ, Santos-SP, Paranaguá-PR, São Francisco do Sul-SC, Itajaí-SC, and Rio Grande-RS and to containerized cargo exportation shipments, by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), applied to the shippers' viewpoint. This exploratory study establishes a criteria and sub-criteria hierarchical structure based on academic literature adapted to Brazilian reality and then utilized for the empirical application. The primary data research was oriented to support the ports considered hierarchical classification and a survey was applied to foreign trade executives. The basic round indicated the Santos Port, hierarchically, as the first option for shipment, with the position maintained after the sensitivity analysis carried out on the results, indicating the application's consistency and robustness. Despite this, the study limitations recommend its extension to specific and particular situations.

Modern Management Review, 2019

Transport management is an important logistics activity. The choice of transport branches ultimately boils down to two important elements such as costs and quality of services. The features and elements related to reliability, speed, the ability to control and carriage monitoring are also taken into account. Despite high costs, air transport is part of the global value chain that enables parts to be delivered to factories located in different parts of the world in a short time. Air transport creates 3.6% of the global value of GDP. The main advantage of this branch of transport is the short delivery time and high level of security of goods, including those sensitive to shocks. On the basis of statistical data, the tendency of increasing cargo transport in 2012-2017 can be seen. The paper presents the specification of cargoes transported by air, applicable documentation, a waybill and cargo units, and types of goods security.