Aruba Ports Authority

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The Aruba Ports Authority (APA for short) is a public company based in Oranjestad on the Caribbean island of Aruba .

The limited liability company was founded in 1981 and is 100% owned by the Aruba government. The company with 90 employees is responsible for the two ports of Oranjestad and Barcadera and operator of the corresponding waterways, facilities and traffic routes in the port area.

Stevedoring

The stevedoring is carried out in both the cruise port and the cargo port by a private contractor who has leased the premises on a long-term basis on the basis of a concession agreement with the government of Aruba. The current stevedoring operator is the Aruba Stevedoring Company NV (ASTEC), which is responsible for the complete cargo handling, i.e. the loading and unloading of ships. The loading equipment is owned by ASTEC.

Port pilots

The port pilot boats of the APA are marked with the internationally customary label PILOT. The two port areas are guarded by the APA security service.

Cleared ships 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Tankers and container ships 505 549 505 530 513
Cruise and other large ships 928 1,069 1,200 1,568 1,488
Ships smaller than 50 GRT 521 682 701 1.102 1,098
Total 1,954 2,300 2.406 3,200 3,099

Cruise port

The Oranjestad cruise port with the air-conditioned tourist center also has 28 retail stores.

Cruise tourism 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Ships 299 327 314 332 294
Passengers 556.090 606,768 569,424 599,893 582,313
Passengers
per ship		 1,860 1,856 1,813 1,807 1,981

There has also been a tram line between the cruise terminal and the city center since 2013 .

Barcadera port

The Barcadera port is located around five kilometers southeast of the Oranjestad port facility and has a quay around 1200 meters long. In 1999 and 2000, the APA began the renovation. The port has been updated with the appropriate facilities for handling container freight and sea freight traffic has largely been relocated from the port of Oranjestad to the port of Barcadera. In Oranjestad mainly only cruise ships are handled. The gas and petrol tankers and the majority of RoRo ships and general cargo are also loaded and unloaded in Bacadera. The port of Barcadera is currently being converted into a container port with a free zone . Construction of the Barcadera Multi Cargo Terminal began at the beginning of 2014. The concessionaire ASTEC is taking over the investments in the terminal infrastructure.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.arubaports.com/main/about/
  2. ↑ a b The Central Bureau of Statistics presents the results of the 2010 Aruba Census ( Memento from December 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Cruise data in detail
  4. ^ New cargo port Aruba. Free Zone Aruba NV, October 23, 2013, accessed December 26, 2014 .