AIRPORTS

Infraero is a public company with more than 30 years of tradition and credibility in the market. Tied with the Ministry of the Defense, it manages 67 airports, 84 units of support to the air travel and 33 terminals of load’s logistic. With headquarters in Brasilia, it is present in all the States of the Federacy, congregating a force of work composed of approximately 26,500 professionals, among organic and outsourced.

In the airports managed by Infraero, about 97% of the Brazil’s regular air transportation movement is concentrated, what it is equivalent to 1,9 million landings and takes-off of national and foreign aircraft, carrying approximately 102,2 million passengers, a 6,4% growth (data of 2006).

The air cargo movement beat record in the 33 companies’ logistic terminals. Were moved, in 2006, 1,2 billion tons of importation, exportation and domestic loads. To improve still more these numbers, the Brazilian airport infrastructure, that can be compared to the international standards, is being modernized to attend next years demand.

Ceará:

International Airport Pinto Martins
Fortaleza - CE

Airport of Juazeiro do Norte
Juazeiro do Norte - CE

Rio Grande do Norte:

International Airport Severo Augusto
Natal - Emáus - Parnamirim - RN

International Airport of Natal
São Gonçalo do Amarante - RN

PORTS

Everybody knows that Brazil has an immense potential to develop its port sector, with more than 40 cities apt to receive ships of loads and great boats. And, as the world economy scene has helped us, the growth perspective for the Country’s ports is excellent.

Know, now, which are the cities that present port structure:

IN CEARÁ

Fortaleza

With the intention of to improve the productivity and to dispute market in northeastern port sector, who encloses important complexes as Cabedelo, Pecém and Suape, the Port of Fortaleza invested almost R$ 25 million in infrastructure improvements in the last months.

Among the main reinforcements for the terminal managed by the Ceara’s Docks Company (CDC) are the Integrated Center of Attendance inauguration, the Port’s commercial wharf structural reinforcement and recovery and the beginning of the superderrick Mobile Harbour Cranc (MHC) operation, this last one acquired with mount of money from private sector. The expectation is that the load movement in Fortaleza grows about 10%.

Beyond the new features, the northeastern port counts on a series of reorganization and modernization workmanships throughout the wharf. Project that aims at to integrate the attendance to the customers and users of the Port, the Integrated Center of Attendance (CIA) makes use of 3,5 thousand m² of construction and must congregate, in only one space, departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Secretary of Agriculture, Port Guard, the Secretary of the Treasure, port operators, the Merchant Navy, the Receita Federal, the National Agency of Sanitary Monitoring (Anvisa), the Regional Police Station of Trabalho (DRT) and the Ibama.

Pécem

In September of this year, Portos do Brasil announced that the terminal would gain one third pier, aiming to make possible the functioning of a unit of a Liquid Natural Gas (GNL) recycle, with capacity for 6 million cubical meters per day. The process is still in progress, but the Port of Pécem already is one of the best of the country.

IN RIO GRANDE DO NORTE

Natal

The Port of Natal works with cooled loads, fishes and fruits, sugar, wheat and containers. Since 1997, with the Bicuda Rock withdrawal, that was in Port’s entrance, and with the dredging of Rio Potengi, the draught went up from 7,5 for the current 10 meters, attracting new investors and consolidating direct routes from Rio Grande do Norte to European countries. Today, they are three mooring cradles and two in final phase of planning.

HIGHWAYS

Five types of highways exist in Brazil, they are:

Radial highways: BR-0xx - (highways that leaves from the federal capital in direction to the extremities of the country)
Longitudinal highways: BR-1xx - (highways that cross the country in North-South direction)
Transversal highways: BR-2xx - (highways that cross the country in East-West direction)
Diagonal highways: BR-3xx - (highways that can present two ways of orientation: Northwest-Southeast or Northeast-Southwest)
Linking Highways: BR-4xx - (highways that are presented in any direction)

All they, of course, present excellent conditions for load draining from any part of the country. Either for work or leisure, their planning and pavement allow trips for all the nacional territory in a comfortable and safe way. Know more about the Ceará and Rio Grande do Norte’s highways.

Ceará counts on 10,657.9 km of state highways, which 5,767.6 km is paved and 4,890.3 not-paved. The total extension of the road mesh, including municipal, state and federal highways, is 53.325.4, according to Department of Constructions, Highways and Transports (DERT).

The Rio Grande do Norte’s roads has about 1.300 kilometers. All in all, seven federal highways cut the State: BR-101 (South and North); BR-110 (Areia Branca - Mossoró); BR-226 (Natal – Currais Novos); BR-304 (Natal until the boundary of Ceará); BR-405 (Mossoró until the boundary of Paraíba in High West); BR-406 (Natal - Macau) and BR-427 (Currais novos until the boundary of Paraíba).

Throughout these highways, the Federal Road Policy makes use of eight ranks of fiscalization, four police stations and the regional Supervision of the PRF in the State, that co-ordinates all the actions of the patrol crafts in Rio Grande do Norte’s federal roads.