Honduras Business News

Honduras's Opportunity Electricity Market (MEO), created in 2019, is drawing fresh investment in power generation; by May 2026 it supplied 16.62% of national production through 39 plants, though faster payments to generators have increased Enee's purchase costs.

Honduras's ambassador to Colombia announced a strategy to deepen economic ties and attract Colombian capital to maquila manufacturing, banking, agribusiness, and automotive production to create jobs and boost exports.

Mirtha Discua de Quiñónez, the Honduran entrepreneur whose restaurant Zulimar became a landmark of the Honduran diaspora community in the United States, has died.

Honduras's banking and insurance regulator alerts the public to fraudulent messages falsely claiming to be from the CNBS and requesting identity verification, data updates, or biometric validation to unlock financial products.

COHEP will host a webinar on July 29 at 9 a.m. on commercial opportunities in Mesoamerica, aimed at helping Honduran firms explore regional competitive advantages and integrate into an expanding trade environment.

The president of Honduras's National Association of Industrialists says Congress should approve an energy-sector reform bill quickly, with a 20-year validity period, arguing that depoliticizing the issue and pursuing it on technical grounds will unlock investment and jobs.

Honduras's avocado producers are preparing to export to Europe and Asia through training, technical support, and partnerships with international cooperators, building on the country's annual production of over 15 million pounds.

The National Agricultural Development Bank's board has ordered an investigation into credit approvals to determine whether irregularities occurred in the approval process and to establish responsibility.

The head of Honduras's footwear industry association warns that cheap Chinese shoe imports are pushing most local workshops toward crisis, cutting production sharply.

Honduras has launched a centralized registry administered by the banking regulator to identify the true owners of companies, trusts, and investment funds operating in the country, aimed at eliminating corporate anonymity and meeting international transparency standards.

The Footwear Industry Association says more than 300 workshops have closed in three years and 2,000 workers lost jobs as cheap Chinese imports, rising production costs, and higher fuel and electricity prices undermine local manufacturers' competitiveness.

A labor confederation representative estimates that about 40% of Honduras's maquiladoras (assembly factories) have shut down, severely impacting employment and family incomes in the northern industrial zone.

Free-zones adviser Santos Roberto Peña reported that three new companies incorporated in Honduras during the first half of 2026 are expected to generate around 500 jobs.

More than 5,000 small and medium-sized enterprises in San Pedro Sula are set to create free e-commerce websites on July 4 using AI-powered tools, part of a national initiative to help Honduran businesses reach digital markets and improve sales.

Honduras's agriculture ministry and the national coffee institute signed a 100-million-lempira (about $4 million) cooperation agreement to boost coffee production through research, technical assistance, technology transfer, and improved quality standards.

COHEP is backing a digital platform developed through a partnership between the Tegucigalpa chamber of commerce and the Tegucigalpa municipal government to help formalize businesses, strengthen entrepreneurship, and connect Hondurans with training and job opportunities.

Fundación Próspera is partnering with the inaugural Espressate Roatán event on July 11 to showcase Honduran coffee to producers, entrepreneurs, and international visitors, aiming to open new markets and highlight the quality of the country's coffee industry.

Spain will resume exporting pork to Honduras under national health controls and monitoring protocols, as Honduran pork producers watch how the reopened market develops.

Don Fabio Café of Yoro represented Honduras at the World of Coffee 2026 in Brussels (June 25–27), showcasing specialty-grade beans to international buyers and cementing Honduras's reputation as Central America's leading coffee producer.

A relaunched national plan, backed by the government and tech firm KOLAU, will let more than 10,000 micro and small businesses create an AI-powered online store free in about one minute, officials say.

Honduras's state housing bank Banhprovi announced it has funds available for home loans of up to L1.2 million (about $48,000) at 4% annual interest over up to 30 years with no down payment, through branches in seven cities nationwide.

Ficohsa has opened a new branch in El Zamorano (Francisco Morazán), its first physical presence in the region, to serve the area's agricultural, commercial, and academic communities with banking and financial services.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is recruiting for eight positions across supply-chain, protection, and mental-health roles in Honduras's two largest cities, with applications due by June 29.

Three years after Honduras severed ties with Taiwan to establish relations with China, the southern shrimp sector remains in deep crisis; exports fell from $285 million in 2022 to $237 million in 2024, with over 250 farms idle and thousands of jobs lost.

The US Embassy's charge d'affaires met with Honduran public and private leaders to support American firm SBA Communications' expansion of the country's telecommunications network, which officials say will create jobs and boost digital inclusion.

Mario Hung, representing Honduras's Chinese Descendants Association, defended Asian-owned businesses operating in Honduras as legal and tax-compliant, countering a recent Congressional motion to supervise and regulate them.

San Pedro Sula will host the seventh International Forum of Securities Market Issuers of the Americas on June 25–26, bringing together over 550 investors, executives, and regulators from Central America and the Caribbean to explore capital-market financing alternatives to traditional banking.

Investors defrauded by the Koriun Inversiones scheme—an unregulated financial platform that promised returns in five months and collapsed after six years of operation—are being called to register and coordinate legal action at an urgent assembly in Choloma on June 21.

The president of Honduras's renewable energy association said Friday that private generators have no intention to seize state electricity company ENEE assets and are focused on their own projects within reformed power-sector regulations.

A 12.48% increase in electrical rates for the third quarter of 2026 is straining micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises in the San Pedro Sula region, which say they cannot absorb the cost hike without losing competitiveness.