The ports are important equipments points responsible for the interconnection of great part of the local production with the most diverse markets. On the other hand, the port of Aratu, currently responsible for more than 60% of the load movement in the state of the Bahia, was projected strategically to take care of the increasing necessities of an industrialized area, characterizing it as the first and the most important industrial port complex of that state involved mainly with chemistries, petrochemical and metallurgic benefited in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (RMS). Characteristics that confer them a specific degree of importance in the reproduction of the capital, contributing for the semi peripheral insertion of Bahia state in the system of circulation of Brazilian and international economy.
Port; Infrastructure; Urban-Regional development
