Minas Gerais Partnership with the United Kingdom to invest in the railway sector

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The state of Minas Gerais has signed a joint agreement with the United Kingdom to develop the railway sector. For MG, the railways are part of its history. The state, rich in minerals, has the largest railway network in the country: there are about five thousand kilometers that cross 180 municipalities and connect the regions of the north and south.

In order for the railway sector to remain important for the region, it is necessary to invest in modernization and permanent updating of technology and know-how. 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), affiliated to the University of Birmingham, UK.

For ABDIB’s Director of Planning and Economics, Roberto Guimarães, this partnership is a major breakthrough for the sector.

ABDIB welcomes this kind of partnership agreement that Minas Gerais has concluded with the United Kingdom. The biggest bottleneck for Brazilian infrastructure is the transport and logistics sector. Inside it is the railway sector. “There are still bottlenecks in the road sector and other major bottlenecks in the railway sector,” said Guimarães.

Signed at an event at the Research Support Foundation of the State of Minas Gerais (Fapemig). The ceremony brought together the partner institutions of 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 Rey (UFSJ) and the Federal. Institute of Science and Technology of Southeast Minas Gerais (IF Southeast MG). The United Kingdom was represented by the British Consulate in Belo Horizonte and Director of BCRRE.