)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 105
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 19
under 914 m: 84 (2006)

Railways:
total: 699 km
narrow gauge: 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)

Roadways:
total: 13,603 km
paved: 2,775 km
unpaved: 10,828 km (1999)

Waterways:
465 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2005)

Merchant marine:
total: 136 ships (1000 GRT or over) 405,984 GRT/557,179 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 11, cargo 61, chemical tanker 5, container 1,
liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger 5, passenger/cargo
9, petroleum tanker 29, refrigerated cargo 8, roll on/roll off 4,
specialized tanker 1
foreign-owned: 43 (Canada 1, China 3, Egypt 4, Greece 3, Hong Kong
2, Israel 1, Japan 4, South Korea 6, Lebanon 1, Mexico 1, Qatar 1,
Singapore 11, Taiwan 2, Tanzania 1, US 1, Vietnam 1) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela

Military Honduras

Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes naval infantry), Honduran Air Force (Fuerza
Aerea Hondurena, FAH) (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary two-three year military service (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,537,232
females age 18-49: 1,515,120 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 1,100,991
females age 18-49: 1,121,649 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 82,105
females age 18-49: 78,971 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$52.8 million (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.55% (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues Honduras

Disputes - international:
in 1992, International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the
delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El
Salvador-Honduras border, but despite Organization of American
States (OAS) intervention and a further ICJ ruling in 2003, full
demarcation of the border remains stalled; the 1992 ICJ ruling
advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf
of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El
Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the
ICJ ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims
Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize, but agreed to creation of a
joint ecological park and Guatemalan corridor in th