Ferrovia Norte-Sul
Ferrovia Norte-Sul SA is a Brazilian railway company. It was licensed to the mining company CVRD (Vale) for 30 years in 2008 . When this line is fully completed after the planned expansion, it will have a total length of 1980 kilometers with a track width of 1600 millimeters and will cross the Brazilian states of Pará , Maranhão , Tocantins , Goiás , Minas Gerais , São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul .
history
The origin of the railway line was the idea of connecting different railway systems in Brazil from north to south. A connection should be created between Senador Canedo in Goiás and Belém , the capital of the state of Pará. The connection in the south is to be made at Anápolis in Goiás to Ferrovia Centro Atlântica (FCA) and in the north near Açailândia in the state of Maranhão it has already been established with the Estrada de Ferro Carajás (EFC), both railway companies are also operated by the CVRD (Vale) group operated. The construction work on Ferrovia Norte-Sul was started in the 1980s by the then President José Sarney and the section from Açailândia in Maranhão to Colinas in Tocantins has been completed to this day (2009) .
