Port and impacts on the territory: the port system of Grande Vitória (ES)

Abstract

Changes in port structures and operations invariably interfere with the city-port relationship. In the current globalized context, technological demands become imperative, intensifying the role of territories as attractive to global capital and changing the port-city relationship. This leads to the strengthening of the trend of ports in the neighborhoods of cities. In Vitória, Espírito Santo, the trajectory of its ports is in line with the trajectory of its urban occupation, these elements being the basis for local socioeconomic, political, cultural and urban life. Vitória went from the quay city to the large port complexes, from the foundational port to the inland dry ports, constituting in the 21st century an infrastructure system articulated in transport and logistics networks of extensive global reach. Port sites are implemented through city cancellation processes. Public policies related to the port and urban dynamics in Brazil allow part of the problem about the port city and the impacts on the territory, like the one addressed in this article, through notes on the port system in Greater Vitória (ES). For the time being, that current port operations are predominantly aimed at the insertion of ports in the globalized market.