The Transcontinental railway Brazil-Peru (Fetab) is a rail project, in Brazil and Peru with the aim of integrating both nations and increasing commerce between these two nations.
This initiative forms part of a group of projects of IIRSA for a railway between the cities of Pucallpa, in northern Peru and Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil.
Project
On 19 March 2008, the Peruvian congress declares this project to be of national interest.
After the visit of the Peruvian President Ollanta Humala to China for APEC, and following on from a previous agreement with Brazil, a memorandum was approved in China to begin studies for a railway project to link the two oceans and integrate the markets of Brazil, Peru and China. The railway would go through the north of the Peru.
In May 2015, the Chinese prime minister, Li Keqiang announced that during his visit to the Peru he will sign agreements to participate in the Central Bi-Oceanic railway (CFBC), an alternative project for a railway between Brazil and Southern Peru via Bolivia.