Datec is 50% owned by the Steamships Trading Company and by Datec Group ltd, below you will find information about both companies and links to their websites.

Steamships Trading Company

As Papua New Guinea's premier trading company Steamships has been serving PNG for over 80 years, offering competitive goods and quality service through the group's activities to customers and clients throughout Papua New Guinea.Employing some 4000 Papua New Guineans, Steamships is made up 7 main divisions and a host of Associate companies operating throughout Papua New Guinea. One of these associate companies of course is Datec.

With a company philosophy aimed at maintaining their position as Papua New Guinea's premier trading company, Steamships is moving from strength to strength.

Go to Steamships' website

Datec Group

Datec is a regional Information Technology provider with an enviable track record in design, supply, implementation and support of complex integrated computer solutions. The company started in 1985 primarily as an IBM Midrange business partner. From that time it has expanded the business partner relationship with IBM and also developed strong business partner relationship with some of the major IT suppliers in the world such as HP, Compaq, Lucent Technologies, Oracle Corporation, Microsoft and Lotus and other organizations.

The company has offices throughout the South Pacific and employs over 300 highly experienced and competent IT specialists and technical services engineers. Expertise ranges from technical managers, sales professionals, project managers, software developers, customer services engineers, quality management and documentation staff and various other specialists.

The Datec Group has offices located in Australia (Sydney, Brisbane), Fiji (Suva, Nadi), Papua New Guinea (Port Moresby, Lae), Vanuatu and Solomon Islands. In addition, the group supports customers remotely in other Pacific nations including Tonga, Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Tuvalu and Marshall Islands. These group entities are all IT-companies and the resultant synergy from such an IT-focused group translates into a network of support that has quite extensive reach.