INFRASTRUCTURE
Amazon grain railway dispute resurfaces with Supreme Court trial
Indigenous leaders held a series of protests in Brasília this week, and the Ferrogrão railway was among their grievances. Photo: Fabio Rodrigues-Pozzebom/EBC
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…
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