Summary - TST 25
TRANSPORTES, SERVICIOS Y TELECOMUNICACIONES
Paulo Roberto CIMÓ QUEIROZ
Uma rede transnacional: os caminhos de exportação da ervamate de Mato Grosso, Brasil (1882-1902).
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Key Words:
Companhia Mate Laranjeira, Plata Basin, transportation,
extractive industry.
[ Abstract ]
After the end of the Triple Alliance war against Paraguay (1870) and the consolidation of the Paraguay River opening to free Brazilian navigation, the exploitation of the Paraguayan tea (Ilex paraguayensis) native forests located in the south end of the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso boosted. It is attributed to entrepreneur Tomás Laranjeira (who has practically monopolized those forests) the assembling of a complex structure for the Ilex transportation, throughout territories of Brazil and Paraguay heading towards Argentina (the main and almost exclusive consuming market). Laranjeira’s company had as successor, from 1891 to 1902, the Companhia Mate Laranjeira (CML), a joint-stock company which maintained and enlarged, with some remarkable changes, the transports structure inherited from the previous period. This paper, based mainly on CML documents, intends to place that transportation network in the context of the several interests which surrounded the enterprise and to demonstrate the truly transnational character assumed by the referred network.
[ Abstract ]
After the end of the Triple Alliance war against Paraguay (1870) and the consolidation of the Paraguay River opening to free Brazilian navigation, the exploitation of the Paraguayan tea (Ilex paraguayensis) native forests located in the south end of the Brazilian province of Mato Grosso boosted. It is attributed to entrepreneur Tomás Laranjeira (who has practically monopolized those forests) the assembling of a complex structure for the Ilex transportation, throughout territories of Brazil and Paraguay heading towards Argentina (the main and almost exclusive consuming market). Laranjeira’s company had as successor, from 1891 to 1902, the Companhia Mate Laranjeira (CML), a joint-stock company which maintained and enlarged, with some remarkable changes, the transports structure inherited from the previous period. This paper, based mainly on CML documents, intends to place that transportation network in the context of the several interests which surrounded the enterprise and to demonstrate the truly transnational character assumed by the referred network.