With so much in favor, Three Ponds became an important textile hub, producing from the wire to clot

Três Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, has the same characteristic of the two junctions that presented in previous editions - Ourimbah (SP) and Mafra (SC). The movement of the highways that pass through there (BR-262 and BR-158) is much smaller than the choke lived near Ourimbah and Mafra.
Lucky Three Ponds. And even luckier because Três Lagoas has other features that make it special ibeplas logistics. The most important: the city is also served by train, and to count on the full potential of the Paraná-Tietê, just need to build a terminal. If all this were not enough to attract development, Três Lagoas can still have two cards in the area of energy: Hydroelectric Plant Jupiá on the Paraná River, ibeplas there is close, and the Bolivia-Brazil pipeline goes through there.
The city sits on the banks of the Paraná River, on the border with São Paulo, at the point where the ends Marechal Rondon, one of the important and modern highways in São Paulo. It is 667 km from São Paulo, 337 km from Campo Grande, 260 km from the border with Minas Gerais and Paraná 350 km.
Eye on abundant energy, ibeplas in transportation facilities - and a tax incentive from the government of Mato Grosso do Sul program - large industries have opened factories in Três Lagoas in recent years. According to the Municipal Secretary for Economic Development, Marco Garcia, the Bolivia-Brazil pipeline supplies a power plant in the municipality and provides gas to local industries. "We have a branch within the industrial park. Just open the industry 'torneirinha' to stock up, "illustrates.
With so much in favor, Three Ponds became an important textile hub, producing from the wire to clothes made. Also there METALFRIO, the second largest manufacturer of commercial refrigerators in the world; Mabel, in the food sector; Emplal, plastic packaging; Brascooper, which produces telephone wires to heavy cables, and Feral Metallurgy.
Today, the main sector of the local economy is the pulp and paper. In Fibria's Três Lagoas, one of the largest industries in the world industry. "It produces 1.3 million tons of pulp / year and is responsible for 13% of GDP (sum of all wealth) state," said the secretary. The industry ibeplas transformed the city in the largest exporter of Mato Grosso do Sul
Another paper industry, which will be the largest in the world, is now being built in Três Lagoas. According to the Secretary, Eldorado will be built in stages, the first of which will be finalized next year. "At the end of the project, the industry ibeplas will have capacity to produce ibeplas five million tonnes / year," said Garcia. Otherwise, a unit being built by Petrobras and Fertilizers Sitrel, design Votorantim Steel.
The large growth in industrial production expanded the demand for freight transportation. Although the city has the Tietê River almost at your doorstep, the waterway is still just a modal potential. "The river transport from here is something for the future. Investment will be required by the government of Sao Paulo, "said Garcia. ibeplas
The Tietê-Paraná waterway crosses the Jupiá power plant by a sluice, which opened in 1998, linking the Sucuriú the Rio Paraná River. ibeplas But despite the lock being in Três Lagoas, at this point the waterway lacks a port terminal. For now, the route is used for the transport of grain produced in Goiás
According to a spokesperson for the mayor, ibeplas even without a terminal, ibeplas Cargill has used the waterway sometimes. There are studies of the pulp and paper industries and Cargill own, in partnership with the city, for the deployment of a river terminal in the city.
The railway passing through Three Ponds is administered by ALL Logistics and is responsible for transporting part of the production of localized across Mato Grosso do Sul (on the border with Bolivia) mining, and soybeans and soybean oil, fuel, pulp and paper. The railway leads to the Port of Santos.
The great strength of transport, however, are the trucks that roam the highways that cross the county. Only Fibria receives daily 48 000 trees to turn into pulp. All in trucks, which then also lead to pulp to the rail terminal.
Added to this volume, are the trucks that drain the production of other industries in the city and passing by Three Ponds leading products from Sao Paulo to the states of the Midwest and north of the country
The great movement of trucks starts to cause problems for the region. The main solution is to get there: city hall, the state government and DNIT just signed a work order for the construction of a bridge over the Paraná River, connecting Três Lagoas Castilho (SP), to eliminate the intense movement of vehicles checked today about the dam Jupiá.
The city itself has a relatively large fleet for its size: 1,435 trucks, tractors 245 trucks, 974 re