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The Brazilian ports are strategic to the products international competitiveness, given that 97% of the Brazilian foreign commerce is made through the ports. The construction of a port is strategic: the industrial-harbor complexes are inductive of regional development. But the development of the transoceanic commerce, carried by huge ships, demands regional ports that concentrate loads: hubs. The introduction of the container for general load transportation had a great impact on the ports. Transoceanic navigation became multimodal, controlled by big companies with global performance. The main routes and world-wide scales are defined according to the international shipowners operational needs, the ports being evaluated by their potential to optimize global routes and services The big operators, in order to maximize the use of their gigantic ships, need to catch extra traffic with feeder routes. The new ships will attend ports that possess adequate equipment and services. The choice of the ports by large world-wide maritime transporters will depends on the capacity of the Brazilians mining and steel companies, who have a great control on the country most important ports, to add value to the ore in Brazil. The port as a deterritorialized logistic node, inserted in setorialized logistic chains, serves to the interests of big commercial and navigation companies, that subordinate it to the global logistic system. Another model is the port inserted in the city, converting it in a link between the port, the regional economy and the global markets.
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