🚂 Keeping it rail
The latest on the Ferrogrão railway dispute. Markets dream of a Lula-less election. Foreign airlines could get a look-in in Brazil’s Amazon.
In this issue:
The latest on the Ferrogrão railway dispute.
Markets dream of a Lula-less election.
Foreign airlines could get a look-in in Brazil’s Amazon.
Amazon grain railway dispute resurfaces with Supreme Court trial
The Supreme Court is set to resume today a trial over a 2017 law that carved out 862 hectares of Jamanxim National Park, in the Amazonian state of Pará, to make way for the Ferrogrão (“grain railway”) rail project.
It consists of a 933-kilometer train track to link the soy and corn hub of Sinop, in Mato Grosso, to the river port of Miritituba, in Pará, running alongside the BR-163 highway and funneling agricultural output northward to Atlantic ports via the Amazon River.
The Supreme Court trial has been on hold since October 2025, when Justice Flávio Dino asked for more time to deliberate. When proceedings resume, the scoreboard will read 2-0 in favor of the Ferrogrão: as rapporteur Justice Alexandre de Moraes and retired Justice Luís Roberto Barroso had both voted to uphold the law’s constitutionality.
