{"id":10998,"date":"2017-06-20T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2017\/06\/20\/brazil-announces-new-infrastructure-investment-plan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:04:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:04:05","slug":"brazil-announces-new-infrastructure-investment-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/south-america\/brazil-announces-new-infrastructure-investment-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil announces new infrastructure investment plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new investment programme aims to inject $16bn into various sectors of the economy between 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Projects that can be completed and inaugurated by December 2018 will form part of the project portfolio. All will be implemented purely using state finance and cover a variety of sizes, but including rail and ports.<\/p>\n<p>In all, 50 projects have been put forward by the Ministry of Transport. Among these are completion of the North-South Railway, which will link several export ports, and the dredging of the Port of Rio.<\/p>\n<p>Also included in the programme are certain projects that are at an advanced state, but will not be completed before the next parliament in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian government is putting together a new infrastructure investment plan \u2013 Advance \u2013 to replace the Accelerated Growth Programme, first introduced in 2007. This latest initiative has been motivated by the 1% growth in GDP recorded in the first quarter of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-10998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-south-america"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11000,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions\/11000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}