Thai Honda Co Ltd

Honda's Thai motorcycle and power-products plant, shipping engines and bikes to American Honda

Updated Sep 2026

Thai Honda Co., Ltd. (บริษัท ไทยฮอนด้า จำกัด) is Honda's Thai motorcycle and power-products company, formed in March 2021 when the group's Thai sales company A.P. Honda merged with the manufacturer Thai Honda Manufacturing. It has built motorcycles in Thailand since May 1967 and power products since February 1987, and Honda puts its capacity at 1.67 million motorcycles, 230,000 power-product units and 2 million engines a year. The head office and plant are in the Lat Krabang Industrial Estate in Bangkok, with the sales and marketing office in Samut Prakan. Every US ocean shipment on file - 91 of 91 in the July 19 to August 19, 2026 window, out of 237 since July 2022 - is consigned to American Honda Motor Co., Inc., Honda's own US subsidiary, so the US lane is intra-group supply rather than third-party export business. Cargo is Honda engine units, water-pump units and generator sets alongside finished motorcycles (CB, CBR, ADV, CRF and CMX models), loading mainly at Laem Chabang.

Business type

Manufacturer - Honda motorcycles and power products (general-purpose engines, water pumps, generator sets); also the Honda motorcycle distributor in Thailand^2,4

Legal name

Thai Honda Co., Ltd. / บริษัท ไทยฮอนด้า จำกัด^2,4

Group

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. - listed by Honda among its manufacturing group companies in Thailand²

Formed

Established March 2021 by the merger of A.P. Honda Co., Ltd. (sales, created 1986) with Thai Honda Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (production, founded 1965)^2,4

Production history

Motorcycle production since May 1967; power-product production since February 1987²

Capacity

Motorcycles 1.67 million units/year; power products 230,000 units/year; engines 2 million units/year²

Sites

Head office and plant in the Lat Krabang Industrial Estate, Bangkok; sales and marketing office in Samut Prakan^2,4

Products

Motorcycles built in Thailand include Wave, Dream, Super Cub, Scoopy, Click, PCX, ADV, Forza, CB and CBR series, CRF series, Grom/MSX, Monkey and Rebel; plus general-purpose engines, water pumps and generator sets^4,5

US buyer

American Honda Motor Co., Inc. accounts for 91 of 91 US ocean shipments in the July 19 to August 19, 2026 window (100%)¹

US cargo

Honda engine units, water-pump units, generator sets and finished motorcycles (CB, CBR, ADV, CRF, CMX), HS 840790, 841381, 850220, 840999, 871130, 871140¹

Trade lane

Loads mainly at Laem Chabang (33 of 91 shipments), with transhipment via Yantian, Vung Tau, Pusan, Cartagena, Tanjung Pelepas, Yangshan and Ningbo; discharges at Long Beach, Los Angeles, Tacoma, Norfolk, New Orleans, Houston, Charleston and Newark¹

Shipping volume

237 US ocean shipments since July 11, 2022; 253 TEU and US$2,549,040 declared CIF value in the analyzed window; carriers Maersk (49), OOCL (28) and ONE (14)¹

Market position

Honda held a 78.5% share of Thailand's motorcycle market in 2018, selling 1.4 million of the 1.79 million units sold⁵

Customers

American Honda Motor Co., Inc.^1,3

Key people

Arak Pornprapha (ดร.อารักษ์ พรประภา), Chairman (ประธานบริษัท); Yuichi Shimizu (มร.ยูอิชิ ชิมิซุ), President / Executive Chairman (ประธานกรรมการบริหาร)⁴

Best suited for: Honda-brand motorcycles, general-purpose engines, water pumps and generator sets made in Thailand. Volume is captive Honda-group supply, so approach it as a Honda channel (distributor, dealer or group sourcing) rather than an open contract manufacturer.

Researched profile of Thai Honda Co Ltd, 3 Sept 2026, from 5 sources. Shipment figures elsewhere on this page are from US customs records, not from these sources.