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Whether Castello Branco will actually send such proposals to Congress, and whether Congress can be pressured into passing them, remains to be seen. What is clear is that Juscelino Kubitschek, the man who built the new inland capital of Brasilia and thrilled the country with a thousand other dreams, has re-emerged as the major political force in Brazil...
...waterways with 4,000 sunken vessels, 370,000 tons of twisted bridge steel, 14 million cubic feet of concrete and rubble. Since the war, Germany has spent more than $1 billion to clear away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs $1.87 by water, $4.87 by rail...
Growing Pains. Though inland shippers carried 9.8% more cargo last year than the year before, they are facing some unpleasant growing pains. Wage costs have doubled in the last 15 years while rates have actually fallen because of competition, especially from pipelines (oil accounts for 16% of Germany's total waterborne tonnage). Traffic is so heavy that barges frequently stack up in jams several miles long behind such bottlenecks as the locks on the Wesel-Datteln Canal, thus delaying the delivery of goods...
Some experts predict that Germany's inland waterways will gradually lose ground to trucking and pipelines. Shipping Expert Walter Marquardt, deputy head of the Transport Ministry's inland shipping section, questions the gloomy forecasts, noting that "traffic predictions have almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...
...agents last year bought 84,000 tons from small farmers, paid with traditional handfuls of coin counted out in dusty village squares. Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu 66, knighted shortly before independence, started off by importing dried fish for resale to the nonfishing Nigerians then decided to ship the fish inland himself instead of leaving the job to others. He also amassed the country's largest fleet of "mammy wagons," the trucks that carry Nigerians (including market women, which gives the trucks their name) from place to place...