Last year, B3 reached a historic milestone by holding a total of 75 auctions, which resulted in R$243.8 billion in investments. The number exceeds the performance of 2024, when 64 auctions were held with contracts that generated R$180 billion in investments.
According to B3, the São Paulo stock exchange, last year’s auctions caused 98 public assets were granted to the private sector, with the expectation of generating up to 1.6 million direct and indirect jobs.
The road sector concentrates most of these auctions: 20 auctions, double the number of the previous year. These projects totaled R$106.6 billion in investments. The sanitation area was also highlighted, with eight auctions held in 2025 and planned investments of R$44.5 billion; the energy sector, with five competitions, which generated R$5.5 billion.
In the port sector, seven port auctions were held, totaling R$5.9 billion in investments. Among them is the Port of Paranaguáthe largest investment ever contracted by the National Waterway Transport Agency (Antaq) in auctions held at B3 and a milestone for the national port sector as it is the first Brazilian access channel to be auctioned.
Another milestone, highlighted B3, were the auctions in the social infrastructure sector, such as hospitals, schools and prisons. In total, eight competitions of this type were made possible, more than double the number in 2024, with investments of R$12.5 billion.
