Oman awards $437m port project contracts

Oman’s Special Economic Zone Authority at Duqm (Sezad) has signed three agreements worth RO169 million ($437 million) for the construction of a fishing port and the second package of the Duqm Port.

The first agreement related to the construction of the marine fishing port was signed with Dr.Johannes Gustavus Erlings, the CEO of Galfar Engineering and Contracting.

The second was a consultancy services agreement for the construction and supervision of the fishery port at Duqm which was awarded to Cering International Engineering Consulting Company in cooperation with AAK.

The project will be complete within 30 months from the commencement date in addition to six months for preliminaries. The scope of work includes dredging the harbour basin up to 6 m, land reclamation to construct port service buildings besides development of a tourist area with a wharf, pontoons, floating moorings for fishermen pier with pontoons for coast guard, a crane for boat to maintenance, ramp for boats, marine services and facilities, service buildings, internal roads, parking lots and breakwaters with a total length of 3.4 km, a fixed pier for fishing purposes of 850 m.

The third contract was related to the construction of the second package of Duqm Port on the pavement of the commercial pier to accommodate containers, construction of buildings and workshops for operating the pier, and cranes and service roads on the pier.

This project is being constructed by a joint venture of Turkish Serka Company and Portuguese MSF Company. This package includes the construction of four terminals on the commercial pier, including two for containers about 1,600-m long and 350-m wide to handle about 3.5 million TEUs annually.

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