Economy
The economy of Ponta Grossa had three great drives during the twentieth century. The first in mid-1900 with the installation of the railway, the second in the 1970s with the installation of large industrial area of food and milling, and the third in the second half of the 1990s with the establishment of large national companies in the logistics sector and production and investment of large networks of the service sector.
The city is close to major consumer markets of Brazil, São Paulo and Curitiba, and is a conduit for the export of goods through the port of Paranaguá and the Hall of Mercosur, the highway that connects the south of Brazil for the Mercosur countries. It is the fourth largest city of Paraná exporter and the tenth South in particular, to Japan and Europe.
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