Honduran registration offers the following advantages to the international maritime trade.
Competitive rates.
Reduced registration fees according to the tonnage when the same investor registered a number of vessels.
Legal Security of a consolidated democracy.
Fixed annual fee depending on the tonnage of the ship and not the profits obtained by the owner during the year.
Flexible citizenship requirements for the crew.
No need to be Honduran, or have the company based in Honduras for the registration of ships.
Ships sailing in international waters under Honduran registry, providing employment benefits to Hondurans by birth, enjoy the following benefits:
Fifty percent (50%) discount on annual tonnage tax, where eighty percent (80%) of the crew be Honduran nationals, including the operational management of personnel, finance, marketing and maintenance of the ship. It also includes that this operation be carried out in national waters or ports and international shipping companies or agencies Honduran authorized and supervised by the Directorate General of Merchant Marine.
Up to forty percent (40%) discount on annual tonnage tax, when the crew of Honduran labor to board a ship as well.
Two point five percent (2.5%) discount for each month of work of the officer cadets or a qualified technician who is Honduran by birth, and one point five percent (1.25%) for the same concept for passenger ships : and One point five percent (1.5%) discount for each month of work aboard the Honduran workers, and the zero point seventy-five percent (0.75%) for the same concept for passenger ships.