In recent years, Honduras has taken important steps in order to establish itself as a validated and real option to serve as a logistic alternative within the Central American isthmus, through two big projects mounted on the public-private alliances platform: The expansion of Puerto Cortés and the construction of the so-called “logistic corridor”.
The concession of the terminals of Puerto Cortés to the entity OPC in 2014 to date has accomplished to make more efficient the port operations, going from 19 operations per hour to 40 operations per hour. The above, altogether with the expansion of the solid bulk terminal with the expansion of the burden terminal and the containers, positions one of the ports with higher traffic in Central America to continue being a regional leader, being able to handle at the end of the expansions the amount of 1.8 million of annual containers and 580 thousand tons of general burden, three and ten times more of the respective capacities before initiating the concession.
For its part, the logistic corridor includes a road section of 391.8 km that expands from the south Pacific Coast until the North Atlantic of Honduras, passing through the two most important cities of the country. This corridor will allow the burden to be disassembled in the ocean, transported by the national territory and subsequently burden in a new boat in other ocean, in less time that would take to cross the Panama Canal.
These two works, along with other complementary works like the agriculture corridor and the works of beltway of Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula, plan to position Honduras as a serious contender in the leadership of logistic operations in all the region, which undoubtedly will bring economic benefits to the country and its habitants.
Managing Director
García & Bodán
Honduras