The Logistic Corridor known as the “Dry Canal of Honduras” is a megaproject known by most shipping companies operating the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
Honduras works on the development of an Interoceanic route that will allow the interconnection of Puerto Cortés (in the Atlantic) with La Unión (in the Salvadoran Pacific). It is a project that will benefit four countries, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua.
The idea was born with the Plan Puebla Panama in 2001, with the intention of having an alternative route to the Panama Canal for merchandise volumes smaller than those that pass through the channel and that consists of creating a corridor to move merchandise from Puerto Cortés in Honduras to the port of La Union in El Salvador and vice versa and have the customs junction of El Amatillo to El de Guasaule on the border with Nicaragua,
To join by road Mexico-Panama, is to build a highway canal through Honduras, starting in Guascoran and ending in Puerto Cortés, Honduras.
The PPP countries had negotiated with the shipping companies the possibility of opening a new shipping route from Asia, Los Angeles and San Francisco, disembarking at the port of La Union in the Salvadoran Pacific and moving the merchandise through Canal Seco and re-embarked by Cortes in the Honduran Atlantic to Miami, Washington, New York and Europe. Also after its inauguration could receive cargo of the ships that did not want to pass through the Panama Canal in order to reduce the costs of the maritime freight receiving it in the Union and to dispatch it via terrestrial by the Dry Canal to Cortes in the Honduran Atlantic for its Re-embark in that port for the eastern ports of the USA and Europe.
Benefits:
- Reduce the costs of maritime freight during its passage through Panama.
- Time saving.
- Unloaded containers will be transported by the 4-lane fast lane.
- It is visualized that once completed this project will become the backbone of the country’s economy.
- It appears as a competitor of the interoceanic canal of Nicaragua.