Rumo, formerly known as América Latina Logística (ALL), is a Brazilian logistic company, mainly focused in the

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

line logistics in Brazil, being the largest company in Latin America in this segment. The company also provides transportation services such as

logistics Logistics is the part of supply chain management that deals with the efficient forward and reverse flow of goods, services, and related information from the point of origin to the Consumption (economics), point of consumption according to the ...

, intermodal transport, port operations, movement and storage of

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, administration of storage facilities and general storage. It is also involved in

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railroad equipment to third parties, and offers road transport services in Brazil through "América Latina Logística Intermodal S.A."

History

Predecessor company América Latina Logística was founded as "Ferrovia Sul Atlântico" in 1997 and is headquartered in

Curitiba Curitiba () is the capital and largest city in the state of Paraná (state), Paraná in Southern Brazil. The city's population was 1,773,718 , making it the List of cities in Brazil by population, eighth most populous city in Brazil and the larg ...

Paraná state Paraná, Paranã or Parana may refer to: Geology *Paraná Basin, a sedimentary basin in South America Places In Argentina *Paraná, Entre Ríos, a city * Paraná Department, a part of Entre Ríos Province In Brazil *Paraná (state), a state ...

. Pursuant to a privatization process it began operating lines in

Paraná Paraná, Paranã or Parana may refer to: Geology * Paraná Basin, a sedimentary basin in South America Places In Argentina *Paraná, Entre Ríos, a city * Paraná Department, a part of Entre Ríos Province In Brazil *Paraná (state), a state ...

, Santa Catarina, and

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. It began operations in

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in 1998, and later (2001) acquired Delara Ltda, a Brazilian logistics company also operating in Argentina,

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, and

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. Operations were extended to

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and

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through acquisition in 2006. There are connections with the standard gauge rail networks in

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and

and with the network in

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. The company assumed its current name after acquisition of its Argentine railway interests in 1999. There it partnered with

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and the Argentine government until June 2013 in the operation of two freight services: C30-7 Triagem Pta - Bauru SP

* "ALL Mesopotámica" operated the network built by the British-owned Entre Ríos and East Argentine railway companies which extends north from the city of Buenos Aires into the provinces of Entre Ríos,

Corrientes Corrientes (; Guaraní: Taragui, literally: "Currents") is the capital city of the province of Corrientes, Argentina, located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, about from Buenos Aires and from Posadas, on National Route 12. It has ...

and

Misiones Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes P ...

. Those lines had become part of the state-owned

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after

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in 1948. With the

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of the entire railway network in Argentina, the Urquiza Railway was given in concession to

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"Ferrocarril Mesopotámico – General Urquiza S.A." on October 22, 1993."El Gobierno rescinde el contrato del Tren de la Costa y del Parque de la Costa"
Apertura.com, 4 Jun 2013 * "ALL Central" operated the

broad gauge A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge (the distance between the rails) broader than the used by standard-gauge railways. Broad gauge of , more known as Russian gauge, is the dominant track gauge in former Soviet Union countries ...

network built by the British-owned

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which extends westwards from the city of Buenos Aires into the western provinces of Mendoza and

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. Those lines had become part of the state-owned San Martín Railway after nationalisation. The had been previously operated by private company " Buenos Aires al Pacífico S.A." (BAP) that took over on August 26, 1993. On June 4, 2013, the Argentine government cancelled ALL's concessions due to contract violations by failing to invest and accumulating fines worth 30 percent of the concession. The head of

Trenes Especiales Argentinos Trenes Especiales Argentinos (TEA) () was a private railway company in Argentina that operated trains from Buenos Aires to the city of Posadas in the Mesopotamia region. History With the railway privatisation of the entire rail network carried ...

, which had operated passenger services on the

, has publicly supported the decision, claiming that ALL was responsible for the deterioration of the standard gauge network. ALL operated a subsidiary named "Brado Logistics" which handled

intermodal freight Intermodal freight transport involves the transportation of freight in an intermodal container or vehicle, using multiple modes of transportation (e.g., rail, ship, aircraft, and truck), without any handling of the freight itself when changing m ...

. In 2014, ALL merged with Rumo (owned by Brazilian conglomerate

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) to form a company valued at R$11,000 million. On 6 May 2024, Rumo announced a partial interruption of its activities due to the heavy rains and flooding affecting

, the country's southernmost state.

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