Transport in Honduras

A highway in Honduras.

Toncontín International Airport, Tegucigalpa.

Passenger train in La Ceiba on January 11, 2005. Engineer tanks fuel manually from a barrel. Colorful passenger car (former box car without walls) is attached to the right.

Transport in Honduras refers to transport in Honduras, a country in Central America.

Railways

Total: 699 km

narrow gauge: 349 km

3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge: 246 km

3 ft (914 mm) gauge

Railway links with adjacent countries

(North to South)

• El Salvador - no
• Guatemala - none in use - break-of-gauge 914 mm (3 ft)/1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) (?)
• Nicaragua - no
•  FERISTSA Railway would connect Mexico with Panama via Honduras.^[1]

Highways

total: 14742 km

paved: 3,367 km

unpaved: 11357 km (2012 est.)

Double carriageway highways are slowly being developed in the main population areas in Honduras, however they are not traffic-selective and accept any kind of traffic, thus slowing the speed along them. The current ones are:

• San Pedro Sula - Puerto Cortés. Length: 56 km.
• San Pedro Sula - El Progreso. Length: 27 km.
• San Pedro Sula - Villanueva. Length: 24 km.
• Tegucigalpa ring-road. Length: 27 km.
• Tegucigalpa - Támara. Length: 23 km.

Waterways

465 km navigable by small craft, mainly along the Northern coast.

Ports and harbors

Atlantic Ocean

• Puerto Cortés, pop. 44,696 hab., off San Pedro Sula
• Tela, pop. 28,335 hab.
• La Ceiba, pop. 114,584 hab.
• Puerto Castilla, off Trujillo
• Roatan, pop. 6,502 hab.

Pacific Ocean

• San Lorenzo, pop. 21,043 hab.

Other

• Puerto Lempira, pop. 4,102 hab.

Merchant marine

total: 306 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 848,150 GRT/980,995 tonnes deadweight (DWT)

ships by type: (1999 est.)

bulk carriers 26 cargo ships 187 chemical tankers 5 container ships 7 livestock carrier 1 passenger ships 2

passenger/cargo ships 4 petroleum tanker 43 refrigerated cargo ships 15 roll-on/roll-off 9 short-sea passenger ships 5 vehicle carrier 2

note:

a flag of convenience registry; (1998 est.)

• Russia owns 6 ships
• Vietnam 1
• Singapore 3
• North Korea 1

Airports

119 (1999 est.)

See also: List of airports in Honduras

Main international airports: San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa.

Other international airports: Roatan and La Ceiba

Airports - with paved runways

total: 12

2,438 to 3,047 m: 3

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 4

under 914 m: 3 (1999 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 107

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 21

under 914 m: 84 (1999 est.)

References

1. "Shaw Group in talks with US railroad cos for Feristsa project, Central America, Infrastructure, news". Retrieved 2010-10-16.

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