Brasil,
Brazil, CDF Victoria a Minas Bond to Bearer, 500 Francs
Debenture, 1902
The Victoria-Minas Railway (abbreviated EFVM in Portuguese after its company name) was founded in 1901. The meter-gauge railway from Minas Gerais to Campos and Vitoria in the state of Espirito Santo is 905 km long. Its development is closely linked to the meteoric rise of the mining company “Cia. Vale de Rio Doce”, today the largest iron ore exporter in the world for over 30 years. During the reprivatization in 1996, “Ferrovia Centro Atlantica”, which is majority owned by the Vale Group, took over the Vitoria a Minas railway from the state railway company RFFSA, which was primarily used to transport iron ore from the Iron Quadrangle in the state of Minas Gerais to the seaport of Tubarao in the state of Espirito Santo becomes. But the railway and its 3,600 employees also transport over 1 million passengers every year
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