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TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS TOWARDS ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN BRAZIL

ABSTRACT

The contemporary economic restructuring has two important components that articulated impact on the spatial reconfiguration in Brazilian territory: they are, the state logistics and corporate logistics focused on transportation and functioning as strategies for planning and management territorial (public) and corporative, with the purpose of inserting and expanding fluency, competitiveness and changing territorial configurations. The process of geographical expansion of capital count with the participation of the public power in the service of corporate demands for transport and infrastructure. In the same direction, the logistics held by companies optimizes engineering systems of transport and storage, to minimize new constructions and production costs. This study, therefore, has as scope to show that the logistics, as organizational innovation, serves to increase the fluidity and territorial competitiveness, interfering in the reordering of various spaces in the Brazilian territory.

Keywords:
Corporate logistics; State logistics; Territorial competitiveness; Territorial fluidity; Modernization; Standards and taxation systems

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