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Economic transformation

Suape Port provides irrefutable living The history that the reader will learn
proof of the people of Pernambuco’s willing- about in the following pages reveals the cou-
ness to take control of their own destiny. In rage and pioneering spirit of a generation of
deciding to create Suape and having the citizens of Pernambuco who imagined a futu-
discipline required to do so using scarce re- re in which preservation of the environment
sources, with or without Federal Government and of culture would be considered assets as
support, Pernambuco has shown Brazil the important as the depth of the port and the
scale of its ambitions and its commitment to size of its quays and piers.
building a better future. Planners, politicians, and various other
The history of the Suape Port and Indus- stakeholders put their differences aside to
trial Complex is so important for the economy imagine a complex that would combine ports
and for the lives of the people of Pernambu- and industry with protection of the natural
co and of Brazil as a whole that its story cries environment and the conservation of natio-
out to be told and people need to know that nal and local heritage.
its strategy for the future is built on the same Forty-five years later, the challenges of
ambitious aspirations on which it was origi- the past have been met and those that we fo-
nally founded. resee for the future require once again that
Pernambuco, through the port that grew the people of Pernambuco employ their cou-
up around its capital city of Recife, has histo- rage and capacity for leadership to ensure
rically played a leading role in the global eco- that Suape carves out a new path towards a
nomy. In the second half of the 20th century, better life for all.
however, it found itself at a turning point and Read this book, learn about this history,
at risk of being excluded from the new cycles and become passionate about the potential
of industrialization and economic develop- we have to build the future, if we take Suape
ment that were underway. as our example.

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