Anderson Adauto, the Transportation Minister, ensures that the bill will be sent soon
By Elizabeth Lopes

The federal government will send to Congress, in the next few weeks, a bill that aims at regulating partnerships with the private sectors, the so-called PPPs (Public-Private Partnerships), said Transportation Minister Anderson Adauto, yesterday. The minister added that in order to exchange construction work and projects, the Union must have a counterpart from the business community.

Yesterday, in São Paulo, the minister participated in the ceremony for the signature of the intentions protocol with the Bandeirantes Palace. The document will initiate the establishment of a work group that will define the project to implant the São Paulo Railway Ring (Ferroanel). The governor of the State of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB), once again said that the State's priority is to build the Southern stretch that will connect the Ferroanel to the Santos Harbor.
According to Alckmin, one of the project's priorities is the railway transposition of the São Paulo Metropolitan region with the creation of an additional point of access to the Santos Harbor. The idea is to articulate this project with the Southern Wing of the Highway Ring (Rodoanel). He said that the expropriation work for the two projects will be carried out jointly.

Union and of the State representatives will form the group that will define the Ferroanel implanting process. The group will have 18 months to carry out the technical, operational, and environmental survey to delineate the alternatives for the North and South stretches and to evaluate the financial needs and the modes of financing for the construction work to be carried out.
The Ferroanel project foresees the construction of 66 kilometers of railways between Campo Limpo Paulista and Engenheiro Manuel Feio (Northern stretch), as well as 44 kilometers between Vila Califórnia and Evangelista de Souza (Southern stretch). To build the 140 kilometers of railways, the estimated resources are in the order of R$750 million.

According to the governor, one of the objectives to implant the Ferroanel is to solve the conflict between the freight railway flow and the metropolitan passenger trains in the city of São Paulo. Furthermore, the improvements will reduce the intervals between the trains by up to three minutes with the modernization of the Companhia Paulista de Trens Metropolitanos (CPTM) lines.

Estado de S. Paulo