Shipping from Miami to Honduras
Ocean and air freight from Miami into Honduras — weekly consolidated sailings into Puerto Cortés, and direct flights into San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa. One team, one lane, run for 20+ years.
🚢 Ocean · 3–4 days📅 Weekly sailings✈️ Air · 1 day📅 4× weekly flights
Ocean and air freight into Honduras.
Full-container (FCL) and consolidated (LCL) service sailing weekly from Port Everglades (King Ocean) and the Port of Miami (Seaboard) into Puerto Cortés — 3–4 days port to port. Reefer and out-of-gauge cargo handled, with fixed cut-offs you can plan around.
Warehouse cut-off: Wednesday, 12:00 noon
Miss Wednesday and nothing sits — your cargo rolls to the following week’s sailing, and we’ll tell you before you have to ask.
Direct flights into San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa, 4× weekly, with 1 day transit — ideal for time-critical, perishable, or high-value cargo.
Warehouse cut-off: Monday–Friday, 12:00 noon
Miss the noon cut-off and your cargo moves to the next available flight, usually the next day. We’ll confirm the new departure with you.
Transit times and departure frequency
Port Everglades / Port of Miami
South Florida · USA
Puerto Cortés
Honduras
Miami (MIA)
Miami, FL · USA
SAP · TGU
San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa
Backing both ocean and air
Licensed clearance on both ends, our own South Florida truck fleet for pickup and delivery, and a bonded 50,000 sq ft Miami warehouse. The same team handles your paperwork whichever mode you choose.
Why companies ship this lane
Honduras runs on trade with the United States, and San Pedro Sula is where most of it lands — the country's industrial capital, and the manufacturing and distribution base that feeds the rest of the country. It sits about 60 kilometers inland from Puerto Cortés, the largest port in Central America, which handles the large majority of all Honduran ocean freight in both directions.
Under CAFTA-DR, in force between the U.S. and Honduras since 2006, most U.S.-origin goods enter duty-free when they meet the rules of origin. That changes the math on sourcing out of Miami rather than farther afield.
Then there's the geography. Miami to Puerto Cortés is three to four days on the water — closer to a domestic lead time than an international one. For anything that can't wait, San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa are one flight from Miami, four times a week, next day. Most of our Honduras customers use both: ocean for the standing program, air for the exceptions.
How your shipment moves.
Six stages, handled by one team. Three of them are identical whichever mode you choose — the lane only splits where the freight physically does.
South Florida pickup
Our own truck fleet collects your cargo across South Florida.
Miami consolidation
Received and consolidated at our 50,000 sq ft Miami warehouse.
Miami air build-up
Screened, palletized and built up for departure at our Miami facility.
Export clearance
Documentation and U.S. export filing prepared by our team — ocean B/L or air waybill.
Ocean sailing
Weekly departure to Puerto Cortés — 3–4 days at sea.
Weekly · 3–4 days
Direct flight
4× weekly departures to SAP · TGU — 1 day in transit.
4× weekly · 1 day
Import clearance
Cleared through customs at Puerto Cortés by our local partners.
Import clearance
Cleared at SAP · TGU by our local partners.
Final delivery
Delivered to your door in San Pedro Sula, Tegucigalpa and across the region.
What moves on the Miami–Honduras lane
Twenty years on one lane teaches you what actually ships. Our most common cargo into Honduras:
If yours isn't on the list, it's still likely something we move weekly — this is the top of the list, not the limit of it.
Some of this is regulated, and we treat it that way. Electronics with lithium batteries, air-conditioning components with refrigerant, and certain auto parts — airbag inflators, shock absorbers, pressurized cylinders — are classified as dangerous goods. The rules are stricter by air than by ocean, and the most common failure isn’t the cargo, it’s the paperwork. We classify, document, and pack it correctly before it leaves Miami, so a compliance detail never becomes a hold at the port or a rejected build-up at the airline.
Documents you'll need
Nothing here is unusual. Getting it right the first time is what keeps a shipment moving.
Commercial invoice and packing list
Every line needs its country of manufacture and its HTS code. Honduran customs assesses duty from those, and a missing or incorrect code is the most common reason a clearance stalls.
Required
U.S. export filing (EEI through AES)
Most commercial shipments over $2,500 per Schedule B number require Electronic Export Information filed with U.S. authorities. We file it as your authorized agent. The deadline is 24 hours before the container is loaded in Miami for ocean, and 2 hours before departure for air — which is exactly why our cut-offs sit where they do.
We handle this
CAFTA-DR certification of origin
Honduras has been a CAFTA-DR partner since 2006, so U.S.-origin goods that meet the rules of origin enter duty-free. There is no mandatory government form — a signed certification with the required data elements, on your letterhead or on the invoice, is enough. Your consignee makes the claim, but they need your documentation to support it. Skip it and they pay duty they did not have to.
Optional, usually worth it
Cities we deliver to in Honduras
Inland delivery throughout the country and neighboring markets — by ocean into Puerto Cortés, or direct by air into SAP · TGU.
Consolidated onward trucking to neighboring markets available on request.
📍 Ocean + trucking ✈️ Also direct by air
Who we sail and fly with
We book space with established ocean and air carriers on this lane — chosen for schedule reliability into Honduras.
A lane we know by heart.
We’ve moved freight from Miami to Latin America since 1992, and run this specific lane for over two decades. That experience shows up in cleaner paperwork, fewer holds, and cargo that arrives when we say it will.
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Common questions about shipping to Honduras
Port to port, transit runs 3–4 days on our weekly sailings from Miami. Add a day or two on each end for pickup, consolidation, and inland delivery.
FCL (full container) is best when you can fill a 20′ or 40′ box. LCL (less-than-container) consolidates your cargo with others — ideal for smaller shipments. Both sail weekly to Puerto Cortés.
Weekly — we consolidate on a fixed schedule so you always know the next cut-off and departure. Ask a specialist for this week’s sailing.
Airport to airport, transit is 1 day on direct flights from Miami into SAP · TGU. Add pickup, build-up, and clearance on each end when planning a door-to-door date.
4x weekly into both SAP · TGU. Air freight routes directly into these airports — it does not travel via Puerto Cortés.
Yes — clearance works the same way on both modes. As a licensed IATA cargo agent we issue the air waybill and handle U.S. export filing, and our local partners clear your cargo at SAP · TGU and arrange onward delivery.
It comes down to how fast you need it and what the cargo is worth. Ocean moves in 3–4 days on weekly sailings and costs less per kilo, so it suits volume, heavy or bulky goods, and anything you can plan a week or two ahead. Air moves in 1 day with 4× weekly departures, so it suits deadlines, perishables, high-value goods, and replenishment you can’t wait on. Many customers use both on the same lane — ocean for standing orders, air for urgent gaps. Send us the weight, dimensions, and the date you need it landed, and we’ll price both.
We run our own truck fleet across South Florida, so we can collect from your dock or warehouse and bring it to our Miami facility — for ocean consolidation or air build-up alike.
For ocean, cargo must be at our Miami warehouse by 12:00 noon on Wednesday to make that week’s sailing. For air, the cut-off is 12:00 noon, Monday through Friday.
Five things, mostly. Weight and volume — ocean LCL prices on whichever is greater, cubic meters or metric tons, while air prices on chargeable weight, meaning actual or dimensional, whichever is higher. Whether it moves as LCL or a full container. Whether it goes by ocean or air. Whether we handle it door-to-door or port-to-port. And what the cargo is — dangerous goods, oversize pieces and temperature-controlled freight all carry handling requirements that show up in the rate. Send us those five and you will have a number within 4 business hours.
Smaller and medium shipments consolidate into a shared container, which is usually cheaper than paying for space you will not fill. Past a certain volume a full container of your own wins on both cost and transit, because it skips consolidation and deconsolidation on both ends. Where that line falls depends on your cargo’s density and how often you ship — send us the dimensions and we will tell you which side you are on.
Either. Port-to-port covers the ocean or air leg plus terminal charges on both ends. Door-to-door adds pickup in South Florida with our own truck fleet and final delivery in Honduras. Most customers on standing programs use door-to-door because it is one invoice and one point of contact; spot shippers with their own trucking sometimes prefer port-to-port. We will quote both if you are not sure.
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Honduras is one of thirteen lanes we run out of Miami. See all shipping lanes from Miami — or call (305) 597-9595 for a lane we have not published yet.
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