UMA ANÁLISE PROSPECTIVA DOS EFEITOS DA IMPLANTAÇÃO DO COMPLEXO INTERMODAL DA FERRONORTE AO MUNICÍPIO DE RONDONÓPOLIS-MT A Prospective Analysis of the Effects of Ferronorte Intermodal Complex Implementation to the Municipality of Rondonópolis/MT

The paper aims to assess the consequences of the Ferronorte intermodal terminal that links Santa Fe do Sul in Sao Paulo to Rondononopolis in the Southeast of Mato Grosso. The terminal is to become the main route to deliver grains to the port of Santos/SP, and it is due to be operational in September 2013. The paper describes the terminal's operational flow of production: warehousing, truck unloading, classification, reception, truck parking, and train loadings. The assessment of the economic situation of the Rondonopolis region is performed as well together with the analysis of the performance of the agriculture production in Mato Grosso. Next an economic feasibility study of the project is developed in regard to the effects the terminal to the fiscal value added generated to the city of Rondonopolis. That study is based on an outlook in which 60% of the production is delivered from it. The variable that distinguishes both projections is the foreseeable traffic flow capacity of the BR 163 highway along the urban area of Rondonopolis to the intermodal terminal.