Espaços globais: geoestratégia e poder no sistema institucional portuário-retroportuário de Rio Grande - RS

Abstract

This paper aims to analyzing the new geostrategic condition of the harbor area of the city of Rio Grande. The present scenario, future tendency, supranational regional field and “constructed future” establish the harbor’s new strategy. The harbor area of the City of Rio Grande (RS) not only played its usual role but also became a harbor industrial zone when an industrial district was built in it. The new strategy condition and logistic attributes transformed the harbor into an important oceanic setting in the global economy. It is characterized as a potential centralized harbor shipload in connection with Mercosul’s harbors. The study makes very clear the importance of the local area, action and power. It also affirms that public policies may generate effects on organizational structures that fail to respond to the new economics assumptions: efficiency, velocity and costs.