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| Author(s): |
Rafael Oliveira Fonseca
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-03-15 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Mónica Arroyo;
Rita de Cassia Ariza da Cruz;
Frederic Jean Marie Monié
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| Advisor: | Maria Mónica Arroyo |
| Abstract | |
This study aimed to analyze the dynamics of circulation in Brazil through the coastal shipping cargo. Coastal shipping or cabotage is defined as that navigation between Brazilian ports, using only the sea or the sea and the rivers, in other words, is a national waterway transportation that takes place totally or partially by sea coast. In the current historical period, the convergence of technical, science, information, and the process of capital globalization create greater opportunities towards specialization of places, there was no longer a need to produce all kinds of demands for goods, establishing an intense territorial division of labor where circulation emerges as an element intrinsic to the production processes, therefore it is only through the circulation of goods that the production cycles become effected. This process has contributed to an intensification of the material and immaterial flows that occur in wider spaces increasingly globalized thereby increasing the tendency to geographical spreading of economic-productive activities. In Brazil these aspects acquire emphasis, especially since the 1990s, when most of the world, economic, political and social changes occurred imposed to all the countries, and to Brazil, a new pattern of organization of the territory ruled, among other factors, in the search of a better rationality and territorial fluidity due to the intensification of flows and increasingly forceful insertion of the country in the globalization. Therefore, in a country of continental dimension presenting over seven thousand kilometers of coastline, with a coast where are located most of the major cities and consumer centers, coastal shipping appears as a modal transport with potential for circularion of goods, especially in the context of intermodality intented in a country still essentially based on road transportation. Private agents, defending their interests, and above all the State, within its sphere of action has recently dynamized the water transportation sector. In this way, we propose to understand the action of the State on the transport sector, specifically on coastal shipping cargo in Brazil, as well as understanding the role of the main national shipowners, that use the cabotagae to offer their services based in logistics solutions aimed to optimize material circulation of their customers. Therefore, it is intended to pervade the ways and contents of Brazilian cabotage as well as analyze the main spatial circuits of production that use this mode of transport, with emphasis on productive circuits of: petroleum, aluminum (bauxite) and cellulose (wood). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/14123-9 - The circulation by shipping cabotage in Brazil: magnitude of a system of flows and fixed objects geared to territorial fluidity |
| Grantee: | Rafael Oliveira Fonseca |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |