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Uma coisa sobrenatural de VARGINHA-MG
37 statements · 1 politicians · August 29, 2026 · 2 min
Statements by Gabriel Azevedo. 37 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Foreign Trade and Environment, Transport Policy, State Financing.
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There's something out of this world in Varginha, Minas Gerais.
And I'm not talking about the alien.
I'm talking about a port, a real port.
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About: expandir e integrar portos secos com serviços aduaneiros
With containers, customs, with the Federal Revenue Service inside.
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About: expandir e integrar portos secos com serviços aduaneiros
In southern Minas Gerais, 400 kilometers from the sea, we have the Porto Seco do Sul de Minas, in Varginha.
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About: expandir e integrar portos secos com serviços aduaneiros
The first Dry Port in Brazil, created in 1993.
The idea is simple and brilliant.
Instead of the producer sending the cargo down to the coast and handling the paperwork there, the paperwork comes here.
Closer to those who produce.
- Neutral
About: aumentar fluxo de comércio através de centros logísticos regionais
Just in 2023, about 1.5 billion dollars in merchandise passed through here.
There’s Eurofarma, there’s Mercado Livre, there’s Marelli, there are 220,000 square meters of warehouse space and around 2,000 people working directly in the complex.
It started with coffee in 1997, with 25,000 bags leaving from here.
The following year, 280,000.
- Neutral
About: expand investments in transport infrastructure
And now there's a 60-million project to double the capacity.
So you ask me, if everything's so good, what's the problem?
- Neutral
About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
The problem is this port doesn't have the sea, and it also doesn't have rail.
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About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
It has no connection to the railway to distribute products until they reach the final consumer.
Everything that comes in and out of here is by truck.
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About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
The branch line from Varginha to Três Corações is out of service.
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About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
In 2020 they ran a test, they sent 200 tons of coffee by train from here to Porto Sepitiba.
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About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
And it worked, but it stopped there.
About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
In other words, we managed to build a port in the middle of the mountains with customs, Anvisa, the Federal Revenue, first-rate companies, which forgot.
to connect it to the track.
About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
Look at the size of the waste.
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About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
In 2021 it was estimated that of the 30 to 40 thousand containers that leave here by truck, they could go by train if the rail corridor were reactivated.
About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
That's why our government plan has an entire pillar dedicated to the revival of railways.
About: reativar corredores ferroviários regionais para escoamento de carga
And one of the routes I advocate for this outflow of coffee, including from Guaxupé next door, which has the largest coffee cooperative in the world, should be prioritized.
People, this isn't a dream.
- Neutral
About: use mining funds and royalties to finance local rail infrastructure
It's a ready project, with funding sought.
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About: use mining funds and royalties to finance local rail infrastructure
and it's already in talks with Brasília.
The hard part, Varginha already does.
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About: expandir e integrar portos secos com serviços aduaneiros
Cargo — it has customs, it has companies.
What's missing?
Rail.
If you're from Varginha and the region, comment below.
I knew there's a port in your town that almost nobody from outside knows about.
And send this video to everyone, so they know Varginha is far beyond the supernatural.
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