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The harbour at Oranjestad was large enough, however the cargo ships had to share the port with cruise ships which often caused problems. [1] The first priority was to move the container terminal. Work began in 2011, and the move was completed in 2015. [4] On 12 April 2016, the Barcadera harbour was officially opened by Prime minister Mike Eman. [1]
It was a natural bay which was accessible to large ships. It was the second harbour on Aruba after Commandeurs Baai (Commander's Bay) in Savaneta. [3] The bay later became known as Paardenbaai (Bay of Horses) because the harbour was mainly used to ship horses to Jamaica and other places. The village near the harbour had no name and was often ...
KLM's Snip, the PJ-AIS a Fokker tri-motor, ushered in the scheduled flying age in Aruba on 19 January 1935. Together with the KLM's “Oriol”, the PJ-AIO, also a three-engine Fokker, they flew until 1946, after which they were scrapped. On its bi-weekly Aruba-Curaçao operations, KLM transported 2,695 passengers on 471 flights. [2]
Georgia Ports Authority intermodal terminal at the Port of Savannah. In Canada, the United States and Spain, a port authority (less commonly a port district) is a governmental or quasi-governmental public authority for a special-purpose district usually formed by a legislative body (or bodies) to operate ports and other transportation infrastructure.
Aruba (/ ə ˈ r uː b ə / ə-ROO-bə, Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈrubaː] or [aːˈrybaː] ⓘ, Papiamento pronunciation:), officially the Country of Aruba (Dutch: Land Aruba; Papiamento: Pais Aruba), is a constituent island country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, in the southern Caribbean Sea 29 kilometres (18 mi) north of the Venezuelan peninsula of Paraguaná and 80 kilometres (50 ...
15 ATV was a television station on the island of Aruba, which broadcast on channel 15 on SETAR's cable TV system and VHF channel 8 on analog terrestrial television in the NTSC television standard. The station had the call sign of PJA-TV (following the standard in the Netherlands and Netherlands Antilles , with PJ call signs), though it went by ...
Paardenbaai is the largest passenger port on the island, accommodating up to five vessels. [45] For cargo vessels, there's a port at Barcadera , situated 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the east. [ 46 ] Plans are underway to enhance loading capacity at Oranjestad, including the construction of a marina to address the insufficient docking space for ...
The Oranjestad Streetcar (Dutch: Tram van Oranjestad) and (Papiamento: Tranvia Oranjestad) is a single-track tram line in Oranjestad, the capital city of Aruba. It is owned and operated by Arubus, the national public transportation company.