General Eloy Alfaro International Airport MEC / SEMT

Passenger and ramp ground handling at General Eloy Alfaro International Airport; confirmed directly on Swissport's own current Latin America & Caribbean network page, which states Manta is one of four recent Ecuador expansion locations (alongside Baltra, San Cristobal and Coca) under new airline partnerships — corrects an earlier, unsourced claim that Swissport had served Manta since 1995 alongside Quito, Guayaquil and Latacunga.

Ramp handling (marshalling, aircraft parking/towing, baggage/cargo load-unload) at Manta, one of 7 Ecuadorian airports Talma serves after acquiring Andes Airport Services (ANDES) in 2017 (confirmed via Talma's own 2017 news archive and its "7 aeropuertos del Ecuador" homepage claim); station-level presence at Eloy Alfaro/Manta corroborated by Talma staff LinkedIn posts referencing operations "en el aeropuerto Eloy Alfaro de Manta" and Talma employee profiles based in Manabi. Ecuador's AIP GEN entry for SEMT reportedly still lists legacy operator ANDES with 1 tractor and 10 dollies for ramp/cargo equipment transport.

State oil company operating the Jet A-1 fuel storage and dispatch plant at General Eloy Alfaro International Airport; per EP Petroecuador's own 11-Oct-2023 press release, two 100,000-gallon tanks were rehabilitated and returned to service 29-Sep-2023 under a comodato (loan-of-use) contract with the Ecuadorian Air Force (FAE), dispatching an average 120,000 gal/month of Jet A-1 to airlines including Avianca, Copa and Aeroregional plus private/general aviation.

Aircraft cabin/interior cleaning is part of Talma's standard ramp-service package (marshalling, baggage, cargo, cabin cleaning) applied across its 7 Ecuador stations, which include Manta; not separately confirmed as a per-turnaround service at MEC specifically, so treat station-level detail as unconfirmed.

DGAC is the state operator/administrator of this joint civil-military airport and nationally runs AVSEC quality-control liaison points (Gerencia de Seguridad de Aviación) at every airport it administers; a Manta-specific description of screening/checkpoint staffing was not separately documented, so this self-provided-service entry is marked unconfirmed at station level. Contact phone number not.

Provides on-airport policing and physical security at General Eloy Alfaro International Airport, consistent with the Policía Nacional's standard nationwide role at Ecuadorian civil airports; the specific Ministerio de Gobierno article said to name this airport could not be re-located, so treat that exact citation as unconfirmed while the underlying policing function is standard practice at airports of this size.

Airport car-rental counter at Manta (MEC), confirmed on Avis's own airport-specific booking page (avis.com/en/locations/ec/manta/mec): address "Eloy Alfaro Airport, Manta, EC", phone (•••, open Mon-Fri 07:00-21:00, Sat 09:00-14:00, Sun 15:00-18:00. · Mon-Fri 07:00-21:00, Sat 09:00-14:00, Sun 15:00-18:00

Car-rental counters at Aeropuerto Internacional de Manta: Enterprise lists "Manta Int Airport (MEC)" as a named airport location on its own site; Alamo confirmed via its own Facebook page (Dec-2024) the opening of new offices "en el Aeropuerto de Eloy Alfaro" in Manta, superseding an older off-site listing. Office codes KX16/KX15 per each brand's location pages (not cross-checked against a primary airport-code registry).

FBO/trip-support and ground-handling coordination for business and private aviation at General Eloy Alfaro International Airport, one of 8 Ecuador/Peru airports Jethandling serves (Quito, Guayaquil, Galápagos, Manta, Cuenca, Lima, Cusco, Trujillo), confirmed directly on jethandling.com. States it is the local operational partner for Universal, NetJets, Jetex, Flexjet and AEG Global Jetcare, with 16-hour daily bilingual dispatch support; email and phone contacts match the company's own site. · 16h daily