Abstract

Railway transport is not only a public utility service, but also, when analyzing agribusiness, it is decisive in relation to the efficiency of Brazilian commodities to gain competitiveness against the competitors from international markets. Thus, recently the logistics and agribusiness market were spectators of the merger between RUMO (branch of Cosan) and ALL (América Latina Logística). On the representativeness of these companies, both in the transport sector, as in the agro-industrial sector, this paper aims to analyze factors preceding the merger and thus diagnose determinants further objective is to investigate what the potential consequences of such restructuring in the Brazilian railway market.

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