TERRITORIAL RESTRUCTURING AND INSERTION OF RIO GRAND

The characterization of the foreign trade of the Brazilian federal units can help in understanding the design of the new regional transport networks. This analysis is based on foreign trade information for the state of Rio Grande do Norte in the 2010-2011 biennium, obtained from the MDIC database (Alice Web System). The markets of origin and destination in the state's commercial movements were mapped using GvSIG software, indicating patterns concentrated in the Atlantic Basin, where maritime freights have lower costs than the rest of the world. However, the location and peculiarities of conditioning of part of the basket of regional export products privileges the air modal and the use of ports of neighboring states. Territorial Restructuring; Foreign Trade; Regional Insertion; Transport Networks; Logistics