El Salvador - 3.2 Transporters | Digital Logistics Capacity Assessments

El Salvador is part of FECATRANS (Central American Federation of Transporters) has two main road transport associations. It also has two main transport associations: ASTIC – Salvadorean Association for International Cargo Transporters (73 members) and ASAC – Salvadorian Association for Transit and Cargo Agents (50 members). Many of these members also are logistics forwarders agents and provide transport via land, air and sea.

The Customs has a list of more than 3,000 transporters, which contains names, address, contact, risk level and status. The size of these transporters goes from 1 truck to 200 trucks and truck sizes go from 1.5mt to 52ft trucks, and mostly in good conditions.

Mainly roads in El Salvador are passable, specially the three highways: Longitudinal del Norte, which is located on the north area of the country and goes from Santa Ana to La Union. Panamericana, which is in the middle and Litoral by the coast side. These two go from Ahuachapán to La Union.

Traffic is the biggest problem in the country; therefore, transit schedule was provided for heavy trucks. In this sense, heavy trucks will stop circulating at 05:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. until 7:30 p.m., on the Boulevard Fuerza Armada, Pan-American Highway, Constitución Boulevard and the Troncal del Norte. During these times, carriers must use alternate routes to continue their journey without entering San Salvador. The measure, imposed by the Vice Ministry of Transportation (VMT) back in 2014, aimed to reduce traffic and reduce pollution in the most congested points of the metropolitan area. However, due to the COVID-19 there are no more time restrictions to transit.

For more information on transport company contact details, please see the following link: 4.8 Transporter Contact List.

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WALNYS, S.A. de C.V. Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central American countries – for Mexico, a transfer of container needs to the done at the border Guatemala-Mexico due to truck entering restrictions.
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	67	11	Good conditions and closed type
	185	11 - 25	Good conditions and closed type and open flat bed
Total Capacity	252
C807 Transportes Consolidados Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central American countries – for Mexico
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	13	11	Good conditions and closed type
Total Capacity	13

Triton Logistics Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central American countries – for Mexico, a transfer of container needs to the done at the border Guatemala-Mexico due to truck entering restrictions.
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	235	22	Good conditions and closed type and open flat bed
Total Capacity	235

RANSA SA de CV Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central American countries – for Mexico, a transfer of container needs to the done at the border Guatemala-Mexico due to truck entering restrictions.
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	30	8	Good conditions, closed type
	15	22	Good conditions, closed type
Total Capacity	45

Logistics Centroamerica Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	El Salvador
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	32	8	Good conditions, closed type
Total Capacity	32

Importaciones Pleitez Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central America
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	20	1.5	Pickups
Total Capacity	20

Blanco Logistics Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	El Salvador
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	14	22	Good conditions, closed type
Total Capacity	14

CALPI Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central America
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	299	22	Great conditions, closed type
	3	4	Great conditions, closed type
	3	7	Great conditions, closed type
	14	8	Great conditions, closed type
Total Capacity	319

Transportes Posada Transport Capacity Summary
Regions Covered	Central America
	Number of Vehicles	Capacity per Vehicle (MT)	Comments / Condition of Vehicles
	33	11	Good conditions, closed type
	3	22	Good conditions, closed type
Total Capacity	36

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