Encomiendas Latinas

What Encomiendas Latinas does

Encomiendas Latinas is a privately held, family-operated international shipping company (legal entity: Cargo Honduras Inc.) founded in 2003 and headquartered in Kenner, Louisiana. The company provides door-to-door parcel, general cargo, document, and personal-encomienda shipping services from the United States to ten Latin American countries, with the Honduras corridor as its historical and brand-defining market. It serves the Central American diaspora in the USA — primarily individuals sending personal packages and remittance-style shipments to family in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela — through three owned offices (Kenner LA, Tampa FL, Orlando FL), home-pickup logistics, an in-house customs clearance team, and owned transportation fleet.

The core product offering comprises four shipping categories (Encomiendas Personales, Carga en General, Documentos, Paquetería) supported by three add-on modules: door-to-door pickup (Recolección a Domicilio), real-time shipment tracking (Rastreo de Envíos), and a customer account portal (Mi Cuenta). The technology stack is minimal — no proprietary platform, API, SDK, or AI components are disclosed; the business runs primarily on phone, WhatsApp, and an online tracking portal. Pricing is quote-based, transaction-fee revenue is generated per shipment, and marketing is driven by Google reviews, Facebook, and WhatsApp-conversion rather than paid digital channels.

Cargo Honduras Inc. is closely held with no disclosed institutional investors, funding rounds, subsidiaries, or M&A activity. The operating model is vertically integrated for control of the pickup-to-delivery handoff in a niche corridor, which is the company's principal competitive position. Limited public disclosures, no disclosed revenue, and absence of disclosed leadership bios constrain external diligence.

Name

Encomiendas Latinas

Legal name

CARGO HONDURAS INC

Website

https://encomiendaslatinas.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Encomiendas Latinas (Cargo Honduras Inc.) is a privately held, Kenner, Louisiana-based door-to-door international shipper founded in 2003, serving the US Latin American diaspora with parcel, cargo, and document shipping to 10 Latin American countries, primarily Honduras, via three US offices and an in-house logistics and customs team.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

International Shipping & Logistics Services

NAICS

Couriers and Express Delivery Services (4921), Couriers and Express Delivery Services (492110)

SIC

Arrangement Of Transportation Of Freight & Cargo (4731)

akta.pro primary industry

Door-to-Door Household Goods International Moving (HSAKACAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Customs Clearance & Import Documentation Services (HSAKACAC), Customs Consulting & Brokerage Outsourcing (Managed Brokerage, Brokerage Operations) (TLACAFAI)

Keywords

• International shipping services
• Cross-border parcel delivery
• Door-to-door cargo
• Freight forwarding logistics
• Package tracking

Headquarters

HQ city

Kenner

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Shipping and Logistics Services: The company generates revenue through charging fees for door-to-door shipping services, including personal packages (encomiendas), general cargo, documents, and parcel delivery to Latin American countries. Services include pickup at customer locations, customs clearance, and final delivery to recipients.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Encomiendas Latinas provides door-to-door international shipping services from the United States to ten Latin American countries. The core offering covers personal packages (encomiendas personales), general cargo (carga en general), documents, and parcel delivery (paquetería), with pickup from the sender's location, customs clearance handled by the company, and final delivery to the recipient in the destination country.

Product overview

Encomiendas Latinas operates as a unified logistics platform offering door-to-door international shipping services. The core product portfolio consists of four primary service categories: Encomiendas Personales (personal packages), Carga en General (general cargo), Documentos (document shipping), and Paquetería (package delivery). These core services are supported by three add-on modules: Recolección a Domicilio (door-to-door pickup), Rastreo de Envíos (real-time tracking), and Mi Cuenta (customer account management). The company has been operating since 2003, providing shipping services from the USA to multiple Latin American countries including Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Encomiendas Personales (Personal Packages) Personal package shipping service for individuals sending parcels door-to-door from the USA to Latin American countries, with pickup from the sender's location and final delivery to the recipient.
• Carga en General (General Cargo) General cargo shipping service for larger or commercial shipments transported across international routes between the USA and Latin America.
• Documentos (Document Shipping) Document shipping service for secure international delivery of papers and official documents from the USA to Latin American countries.
• Paquetería (Package Delivery) Package delivery service for parcels and boxes sent through the company's logistics network from the USA to Latin American destinations.
• Recolección a Domicilio (Door-to-Door Pickup) Door-to-door pickup service where the company's logistics team collects packages from the sender's location in the USA, handling everything from pickup to final delivery in the destination country.
• Rastreo de Envíos (Shipment Tracking) Real-time package tracking service allowing customers to monitor the location and status of their shipments throughout the delivery process via the online portal.

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• FedEx Cross Border: FedEx Cross Border and FedEx International provide international parcel, freight and customs services globally, including Latin America, representing the large-scale incumbent alternative for the same cross-border shipping use cases Encomiendas Latinas serves.
• DHL Express: DHL Express offers international express parcel and door-to-door shipping worldwide, including dedicated US–LatAm trade lanes, competing for the same cross-border personal parcel and document volume as Encomiendas Latinas at a global scale.

Direct peers

• Aerocasillas: Aerocasillas offers US-based casillero virtual mailboxes and door-to-door forwarding to Latin America, targeting the same diaspora e-commerce shopper segment with comparable locker-and-courier economics.
• IBC Cargo: IBC Cargo operates cross-border casillero and parcel forwarding services focused on Colombia and other LatAm destinations from the US, competing directly with Encomiendas Latinas for LatAm diaspora shipping volume.
• Liberty Express: Liberty Express is a door-to-door courier serving the US–Honduras and broader Central America corridors with pickup, tracking and customs handling, directly comparable to Encomiendas Latinas' core Honduras-bound service.
• Casilla Express: Casilla Express provides casillero and door-to-door parcel forwarding between the US and several Latin American countries, serving the same Latin American diaspora customer base with a similar locker-plus-shipping model.
• Aeropost: Aeropost operates a casillero (US-locker) plus door-to-door forwarding service from the USA to Latin America, directly competing with Encomiendas Latinas for the same diaspora shoppers, with cross-border e-commerce forwarding as its core offering.

Regional players

• Estafeta: Estafeta is a Mexican parcel and courier carrier with cross-border capabilities; while primarily Mexico-domestic, it competes for Mexico-bound volume from the US diaspora, an overlap with Encomiendas Latinas' Mexico corridor.
• CargoExpreso (USA–Guatemala): CargoExpreso is a US-to-Guatemala door-to-door parcel and cargo specialist with similar pickup, customs and last-mile delivery to the Central American diaspora, directly comparable for Guatemala-bound volume.

Emerging players

• Box Express (Servientrega-aligned forwarders): Box Express and similar Servientrega-affiliated Latin American couriers offer door-to-door US–LatAm parcel services to diaspora customers; they are partial-overlap competitors serving the same end customer in overlapping destination markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/CargoHondurasEncomiendasLatinas

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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