About Aruba
The island nation of Aruba is an autonomous member of the Kingdom of the Netherlands with a democratically-elected government.
Local banks are affiliated with international financial institutions to provide all banking-currency transactions.
Aruba's telecommunications system offers worldwide services with state-of-the-art equipment.
The just expanded airport will continue to expertly handle the more than 200 regularly scheduled commercial flights per week plus numerous private planes, charters, freight and military aircraft.
Up-to-date facilities in the port of Oranjestad handle
over 650 container vessels, cargo carriers and other
ships yearly under the recently re-instituted free
zone regulations. Oil tankers arrive and depart
on a regular schedule from the Coastal Aruba
Refinery in the town of San Nicolas while
the port of Barcadera handles about
100 vessels yearly.