Brazil and China to study South American transcontinental railway project

Proposal would connect Brazil’s Atlantic Ocean coast to Peru’s Pacific port of Chancay, cutting shipping times to Asia by up to 12 days

The memorandum of understanding was signed between Infra S.A., the Brazilian state-owned company linked to the Ministry of Transport, and the China Railway Economic and Planning Research Institute, part of China State Railway Group.

The plan outlines a railway of about 4,500 kilometres (roughly 2,800 miles), running from Ilhéus in the northern Brazilian state of Bahia to Rio Branco in the northwestern state of Acre, before crossing the Andes towards the Peruvian coast.