Transport in Honduras

A highway in Honduras.

Toncontín 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: Template:Val

• Narrow gauge: Template:Val
• Template:RailGauge gauge: Template:Val
• Template:RailGauge gauge

Railway links with adjacent countries

North to south:

• Template:Flagicon El Salvador — none
• Template:Flagicon Guatemala — none in use — break-of-gauge Template:RailGauge/Template:RailGauge (?) [1]
• Template:Flagicon Nicaragua — none

Highways

Totals

• Paved: Template:Val
• Unpaved: Template:Val (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: Template:Val
• San Pedro Sula - El Progreso. Length: Template:Val
• San Pedro Sula - Villanueva. Length: Template:Val
• Tegucigalpa ring-road. Length: Template:Val
• Tegucigalpa - Támara. Length: Template:Val

Waterways

Template:Val 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 GT or over) totaling 848,150 GT/Template: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 carriers: 2

Flags of convenience (1998 est.):

• North Korea owns 1 ship
• Russia, 6
• Singapore: 3
• Vietnam: 1

Airports

Total: 119 (1999 est.)

• Main international airports: San Pedro Sula and Comayagua.
• Other international airports: Roatan and La Ceiba

Airports with paved runways

Total: 12

• Template:Val: 3
• Template:Val: 2
• Template:Val: 4
• Under Template:Val: 3 (1999 est.)

Airports with unpaved runways

Total: 107

• Template:Val: 2
• Template:Val: 21
• Under Template:Val: 84 (1999 est.)