Aruba Stevedoring Company (ASTEC) N.V

Aruba Stevedoring Company (ASTEC) was founded in 1983 as part of the necessity to upgrade and modernize the port of Aruba to accommodate the further containerization of cargo. These upgrades consisted amongst others of constructing the harbor which we currently have in Barcadera. In order to formalize the stevedoring (cargo handling) services at our ports, ASTEC was founded under a concession agreement with the Aruba Ports Authority (APA). As part of APAs strategic plan, supported by the government of Arubas vision, to separate the cruise activities from the cargo handling activities in Oranjestad, APA launched a comprehensive international tender process in 2011 to select a partner to design, build, finance, operate and maintain a new Multi Cargo Sea Terminal in Barcadera under a long term concession agreement. As the successful bidder of this tender, ASTEC is currently proudly undergoing the transformation from stevedoring company in Oranjestad to a fully equipped and modernized ...