Country Overview: Sultanate of Oman
Digital and investment initiatives to boost logistics sector in the Sultanate of Oman The Sultanate’s Oman Logistics Strategy lays out long-term objectives for increasing the contribution of the logistics sector to GDP.
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man’s strategic objectives over the past several years have focused on easing congestion and enhancing capacity by investing in infrastructure and technology for new ports and road links, as well as expanded routes for national airline carriers. Oman aspires to leverage its deepwater ports on the Gulf of Oman and
The strategic port town of Duqm
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the Indian Ocean to become one of the world’s top ten logistics hubs by 2040. Omani ports are connected with 86 ports in 40 countries. The strategic port town of Duqm, located halfway between Muscat and Salalah on the Indian Ocean, is Oman’s flagship development project. Duqm will eventually include a new port; naval base; dry dock; fisheries
hub; industrial free zone; hotels; power and desalination plants; a refinery; a 250-kilometer pipeline network from interior oil fields; liquid jetty; and an oil tank storage terminal. The government also aspires to build a rail line to facilitate the transfer of mineral resources from the Shweimiyah area in Oman’s Dhofar governorate to the port.
