Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

Brazil set to blast 35 km river rock formation for new Amazon shipping route

The Tocantins-Araguaia waterway is one of the Brazilian government’s priority projects for transporting soy, corn, meat, minerals and other commodities to ports in the Amazon Rainforest. The project calls for more than 2,000 kilometers (more than 1,200 miles) of navigable channels in these two rivers, which cross the Amazon and the Cerrado savanna biomes, and is part of the so-called Arco Norte project, a set of infrastructure plans to improve l…