Bras\u00edlia \u2013 This Wednesday (12th) in Paris, the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff said (12) the government intends to build approximately 800 regional airports in Brazil. According to the president, the project considers that each city with over 100,000 inhabitants should have an airport within a 60-kilometre range. \u201cIt is a necessity, and it is also important to the country\u2019s growth,\u201d Dilma told French businessmen after attending the seminar Challenges and Opportunities of a Strategic Partnership, in the French capital. <\/p>\n
Dilma discussed the importance of privatizing major airports and increasing the qualification of the Brazilian Airport Infrastructure Company (Infraero) and stressed the need to expand inland air transport in a continent-sized country such as Brazil. The president stressed the need to strengthen regional aviation in the country, \u201cdifferentiating it from long-range aviation.\u201d <\/p>\n
In addition to airports at a maximum distance of 60 kilometres from municipalities with up to 100,000 inhabitants, Dilma said airports must be built at the country\u2019s main tourist spots, and said the government has sufficient funds to do so. \u201cWe have the funds for it \u2013 and some of them originate from the very concession fees we charge from major airports,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
High-speed rail <\/b> <\/p>\n
At the meeting with the French businessmen, the Brazilian president also discussed the High-Speed Rail, which will be built to connect Campinas and S\u00e3o Paulo to Rio de Janeiro. Dilma confirmed that up until Thursday (13th), the government should float a tender for the first phase of the high-speed rail. Last week, the Federal Court of Auditors approved the tender, w qualifications.<\/p>\n
\u201cTomorrow we will take a decisive step, because the high-speed rail, which will be tendered in two phases, will have its first phase \u2013 the technology tender. In it, the technology to be adopted and the rail operator will be tendered; after that, there will be a tender for the construction itself,\u201d said Dilma. She also said that throughout 2013, all pending transport sector tenders will be floated. After her trip to Paris, Dilma left for Moscow, where she should meet with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and prime minister, Dmitri Medvedev. She is scheduled to return from Russia on Saturday (14th).<\/p>\n
*With information from the ANBA Newsroom<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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