Nelson Motta
Reporter Agência Brasil

Brasília -According to presidential Chief of Staff, Dilma Rousseff (chefe da Casa Civil). the government wants to conclude the privatization of some 3,000 kilometers of federal highways through the signing of concession contracts by April 15.

Among the highways that will be turned over to private sector concessionaires are: the BR-153/SP (Minas Gerais-São Paulo and São Paulo-Paraná); the BR-116/PR/SC (Curitiba (capital of Paraná)-Santa Catarina-Rio Grande do Sul); the BR-393/RJ (Minas Gerais-Rio de Janeiro); the BR-101/RJ at the Costa e Silva Bridge; the BR-116 and the BR-376, between Curitiba and Florianópolis (capital of Santa Catarina); and the BR-101/ES (in the state of Espirito Santo), besides the Fernão Dias (BR-381, São Paulo-Belo Horizonte) and Régis Bittencourt (BR-116, São Paulo - Curitiba) highways.

Translation: Allen Bennett