A importância do hub port e a atividade portuária brasileira

Abstract

The concentration of international maritime containership routs and the regular decrease of ship calls due to the greater size of new vessels, have change maritime carrier’s strategies into hub ports utilization. In addition, the Brazilian transport system has undergone a series of changes in recent years, highlighting the importance of an efficient transport matrix configured to obtain economies of scale and better economic competitiveness. The efficient use of transportation modes means improvement in the country's infrastructure, causing increases in competition at macroeconomic levels. In this sense, this monograph aims to demonstrate the importance of a hub port in the national and international port activity and to verify which Brazilian port is able to be considered the hub port of the country. To this end, five of the ports were selected as object of study: the port of Santos (SP), the port of Itaguaí (RJ), the port of Paranaguá (PR), the port of Suape (PE) ) and the port of Rio Grande (RS), due to its representativeness in the national scenario and international maritime transport. . From this study, one can also follow the evolution of this activity in Brazil and, therefore, have a better discernment of the current Brazilian port situation. For this, the research method used in the work was the bibliographical one, which is based on books, magazines, newspapers, reliable materials of qualified professional classes, monograph on the subject and sites.