The Hernández administration is looking for companies interested in modernizing and expanding the Henecán port terminal in San Lorenzo, Valle department.
Representatives from the government met with the Ecuadorian company Yilport, who may be interested in the project.The aim of the Honduran authorities is to improve the infrastructure of the most important portfor the country on the Pacific coast.
As part of the measures announced to solve the problems at the customs office in the port, the Honduran government has announced a tender to purchase modern container inspection technology.
More than 200 containers were released from the cargo terminal at Puerto Cortes in Honduras in the early hours of Monday as a result of government measures to address the lack of agility in the customs process, which has caused losses of $45 million, according Laprensa.hn.
In Honduras the deadline for submitting expressions of interest for the project to modernize the port terminal in Punta Castilla, Colon, has been postponed until October 6th.
The new date for receipt of bids is 6 October, according to a statement from the Commission for the Promotion of Public-Private Partnerships.
Plycem will be investing $5 million in implementing robotic automation systems in its manufacturing plants which make fiber-cement materials in Honduras, El Salvador and Costa Rica.
It is expected that by April 2015 12 new robots will have been installed and will be operational, robots which are being manufactured in Europe, and will be responsible for handling heavy materials in the plant located in Paraíso de Cartago, Costa Rica.
A call is being made for expression of interest for the procurement of consultancy services for the supervision of the Works on Remodeling and Conditioning of Administrative Offices belong to the Customs Office of Puerto Cortes, Honduras.
EXPRESSION OF INTEREST NOTICE DEI / UEP / EI-009-2014:
The Directorate of Revenue (DEI) of the Government of the Republic of Honduras is calling for expression of interest in:
Out of the $80 million awarded in Costa Rica to the Limón Port City Project 5 years ago, only 12% of it has been spent, mainly on paying the salaries of public officials connected to the project.
Editorial
A few months ago a controversy arose in Spain over the allocation of funds for development, such as low-interest financing for development projects by a private construction company.
The Directorate of Revenue is inviting bids for professional recruitment services for the Modernization of the Customs Offices of Puerto Cortés project.
DEI / UEP / CP 001-2010
Acquisition Recruitment Services, Assessment and Selection Professionals to work in the Directorate of Revenue.
The government of Honduras has received a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to partially finance the cost of BID-2467/BL-HO project "Improvement of the Customs Office in Puerto Cortés" and intends to apply part of the proceeds of this loan to make payments under the contract "Acquisition of Recruitment Services, Assessment and Selection of Professionals to work in the Directorate of Revenue."
Now we transport thousands of tons of goods in fast trucks, we dispatch proformas and invoices online ... and there are still customs agencies.
EDITORIAL
The controversy which arose in Guatemala over the proposed creation of the Agile Import Window (VAI by its initials in Spanish) is as old as the world. Not going too far back into the past, we know that when in the late nineteenth century cars began to circulate, in many places the speed of their movement was restricted so that they would not go faster than a horse and buggy, and there were many who protested that this invention would put drivers of carts out of work along with horses and cattle breeders.
The contract for the construction, equipment, financing, maintenance and operation of the Honduran port terminal, was signed yesterday by COALIANZA, Banco Ficohsa and the Philippino company International Container Services.
The president of COALIANZA, Carlos Pineda, said that the signing of this contract with International Container Services (ICTSI) exceeded 25% of the estimated investment in the tender process, which initially was $500 million, with a final bid of $624 million .