Minas Gerais is investing in the railway sector along with the United Kingdom

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The province of Minas Gerais signed a joint agreement with the United Kingdom for the development of the railway sector. For MG, railways are part of its history. The mineral-rich state has the largest railway network in the country: about five thousand kilometers connecting the north and south, crossing 180 municipalities.

For the railway sector to be regionally important, investment in modernization and permanent upgrading of technology and know-how is essential. For this purpose, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Ferroviário de Minas Gerais (NDF) and the Birmingham Center for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE) of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

For Roberto Guimarães, Planning and Economic Director of ABDIB, this partnership is a great development for the sector.

“ABDIB welcomes this type of partnership agreement that Minas Gerais is entering into with the United Kingdom. The biggest bottleneck in Brazilian infrastructure is in the transportation and logistics sector. Within it is the Railway Department. There are still bottlenecks in the road sector and other major bottlenecks in the rail sector,” Guimarães said.

Signed at an event at the Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais (Fapemig). The festival brought together partner institutions in the project: Fapemig, the State Secretariats for Infrastructure and Mobility (Seinfra) and Economic Development (Sede), the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), the Federal University of São João del-Rei (UFSJ) and the Southeast Science and Technology Institute of Federal Minas Gerais ( IF Southeast MG). The United Kingdom was represented by the British Embassy in Belo Horizonte and the Director of BCRRE.

Reporting by: Daniela Gomez

Edition: Golden Zildener

Zildenor Dourado holds a degree in Journalism and Literature/Portuguese from the University of Brasilia. He is Unilegis’ Legislative Communications Specialist for the Federal Senate. He worked as a reporter and editor for the newspapers Tribuna da Bahia, A Tarte and Jornal de Brasilia. In addition to various syndicated press vehicles. He served as press officer of the Legislative Chamber of the Federal District, where he was a reporter, editor and head of the Disclosure and Press Relations Division.