Strategic potential of Northern Espírito Santo for the development of the State and Brazil.
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The North of Espírito Santo represents today one of the most promising regions of the state and, indisputably, one of the most strategic for national logistics. And when we speak of the North, we are referring to the entire region above the Doce River, including what is conventionally called the Northwest.
With striking characteristics of agricultural productivity, a privileged geographical position, and a natural vocation for logistical and industrial expansion, it is a territory that has all the conditions to become a structuring hub for economic and social development.
The region is home to fertile lands, with a diversity of agricultural crops, notably the production of coffee, cellulose, pepper, fruit, livestock, and other agro-industrial bases.
Its physical landscape, marked by coastal barriers and ideal areas for the implementation of logistical structures, combined with its proximity to large consumer centers and national transport corridors, makes the North of Espírito Santo a natural point for the outflow and inland distribution of wealth.
In addition to these virtues, there are projects already underway: structuring port developments, such as the Urussuquara Private Use Terminal in São Mateus; the implementation of long-distance rail corridors integrating the Espírito Santo coast with the Brazilian Midwest; privately initiated logistical and industrial support structures; as well as the construction of transshipment and storage centers that will decentralize development and promote the inland expansion of the economy.
It is crucial to understand that Northern Espírito Santo is not just a promising region—it is a necessary region for strengthening national logistics, for balancing the state's territory, and for generating opportunities where historically there has been a lack of structural investments.
Not supporting the growth of this region is to conspire against its people, notably hardworking, entrepreneurial, resilient, and strongly committed to progress. It is also to conspire against the development of the state of Espírito Santo, which cannot achieve its greatness without recognizing, encouraging, and enabling the transformative projects being implemented precisely in the territory that represents its new logistical, industrial, and environmentally sustainable frontier.
The prosperity of Espírito Santo necessarily depends on strengthening its North. And the strengthening of Brazil depends on the expansion of new logistical axes capable of internalizing the economy, reducing costs, and creating real opportunities for people. The North of Espírito Santo is ready; it has vocation, it has projects, it has potential, it has people, and it has a future. What it needs is support.
Investing in the North of Espírito Santo is not a favor—it is the duty of those who understand that a great state only consolidates itself when it integrates, values, and enhances all its strategic regions. Ignoring this movement is closing one's eyes to development. Supporting it, on the contrary, is paving the way for a new cycle of sustainable, fair, and transformative growth.
*José Roberto Barbosa is the CEO of Petrocity and president of the Brazilian Association of Authorized Railways.
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