The cost and time to transport containers at the terminal are not competitive with other ports in Central America.
While moving a container in Puerto Cortés costs about $2,308, other ports in the region charge more competitive rates, such as Manzanillo, Panama ($665), Quetzal, Guatemala ($977), Limon, Costa Rica ($1,020), Acajutla , El Salvador ($1,040), Corinto, Nicaragua ($1,140), and Santo Tomas, Guatemala ($1,450).
Despite opposition from the business sector, the government has frozen the prices of 20 basic food products and is considering including more.
The products included in the price stability agreement are: beef, pork, chicken, sausages, eggs, bell peppers, onions, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, squash, coffee, rice, beans, corn, wheat and corn flour, butter, milk, sugar and banana leaves, and their derivatives.
Despite the corruption scandals that tarnished the policy in Guatemala and Honduras, Honduran businessmen say the project of to unify the border posts at the end of the year is still moving forward.
Amid strikes, marches and demonstrations which have taken place in Guatemala and Honduras, working groups composed of representatives of the private sector in both countries and the government have not stopped working, as reported entrepreneurs like Maria Antonia Rivera, from the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Cortés.
The Honduran maquiladora industry is increasingly benefiting from the agreement which stimulates and protects Canadian investments coming into the country.
This industry has shown great optimism after the approval of the trade agreement. "We will have several advantages," says Daniel Facussé, president of the Honduran Maquila Association (AHM).
78 million chickens were produced in 2008 and they expect to reach one million laying hens in 2009.
Jorge Ulloa, president of the National Association Honduran Farmers told La Prensa that they "will continue exporting to Central American countries like Guatemala and El Salvador. They also want to open the market in Costa Rica, Nicaragua and the Caribbean," and that "they will continue exporting chicken legs to China."
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