The Honduran government is seeking funding to build and improve infrastructure that will allow the country to increase trade across the country and enable it to compete with the Panama Canal.
Secretary of the presidency Rodolfo Pastor de María y Campos said this week that the country requires investment in dry corridor projects, one of which was partially inaugurated last year.
“We need to set higher goals for the connection between Cortés port and San Lorenzo in the south. Therefore, any comprehensive development plan for the country should prioritize the improvement of infrastructure and investments in a dry corridor,” he was quoted as saying by daily La Tribuna. In January last year a US$264mn dry corridor was opened by President Juan Orlando Hernández’s administration. |
The project is funded by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program through the World Bank. It is part of the larger Alliance for the Dry Corridor, which aims to lift 50,000 families out of extreme poverty and reduce under-nutrition by 20 percent in target communities.
It is part of the larger Alliance for the Dry Corridor, which aims to lift 50,000 families out of extreme poverty and reduce under-nutrition by 20 percent in target communities.