CIVIL AVIATION UPDATE.The following update on opportunities in Honduras' civil aviation sector was provided by the American Embassy-Tegucigalpa: Airport Concessions: The Government of Honduras is moving ahead with plans to bid out a contract for a private company to administer Honduras' four international airports (San Pedro Sula San Pedro Sula (säm pā`thrō s  `lä), city (1997 est. pop. 417,000), capital of Cortés dept., NW Honduras. It is the second largest city in the country. ,
Tegucigalpa, La Ceiba La Ceiba is a port city on the northern coast of Honduras, Central America on the Caribbean Sea on the south eastern edge of the Gulf of Honduras. With a population of about 250,000, it is the third largest city in the country and the capital of the Honduran department of , Roatan), in accordance with the recently passed
Concessions Law. The timetable would be: bid requirements published in
May, prequalification in June, winner selected in July, contract signed
by August 1999; New Airport for Tegucigalpa: Concerning the need to
improve Tegucigalpa's currently inadequate airport, a recent study
concluded that modernizing the existing Toncontin Airport (lower two
hills that make landings difficult, lengthen and improve the runway,
build a new terminal on the military side of the airport) is the
cheapest option (about US$50 million) of the three being considered.
Adapting the military air base at Soto Cano near Comayagua (building a
terminal, access roads, and freeway to Tegucigalpa) would cost US$70
million. Building a new airport from scratch at El Pedregal in
Tegucigalpa would cost US$180 million; New Civil Aviation Law: The bill
to reform and strengthen the Civil Aviation Directorate (DGAC DGAC Direction générale de l’Aviation civile (France)DGAC Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (México; Direction General of Civil Aeronautics) DGAC Dirección General de Aviación Civil ) was to be presented to Congress in February 1999. An improved DGAC is necessary to correct deficiencies that led to Honduras assessment as category III (no national carriers allowed to fly to the U.S.) under the FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program The International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA Program) is a program established by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration in 1992. The program is an attempt to appreciate a country's ability to adhere to standards and recommended practices for aircraft (IASA IASA IETF Administrative Support Activity IASA International Association of Software Architects IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (also seen as IASAA) IASA International Aviation Safety Assessment ). (Note: Honduras has no national airline.) Honduras will also have access to an Inter-American Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) international organization founded in 1959 by 20 governments in North and South America to finance economic and social development in the Western Hemisphere. loan to improve civil aviation oversight; The U.S. Commercial Service in Tegucigalpa will report when the Government begins the airport concession process. Details: Luis Rolando Leiva, Director, Civil Aviation Directorate (DGAC), P.O. Box 30145, Tegucigalpa, M.D.C., Honduras. Tel: (504) 233-1115. Fax: (504) 233-3683. U.S. firms may also wish to contact: The Commercial Service, U.S. Embassy Tegucigalpa, Unit 2923, APO apo- 1 A prefix indicating a protein component in a conjugated molecule–eg, apoferritin, apolipoprotein, see there 2 Apolipoprotein, see there AA 34022, Tel: (504) 238-5114. Fax: (504) 238-2888. Contact: David Wolfe, Economic Officer. Rossana Lobo, Trade Specialist. |
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