Muscat: The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) has awarded a contract for a project to build roads and set up infrastructure at the Fisheries Industries Zone in Duqm.
The initiative seeks to enhance the zone's readiness to attract industrial investments and provide road networks and services for supporting the existing facilities and future expansions in a manner that contributes to developing food industries and raising fisheries value-added resources.
The project includes the establishment of an internal road network (covering an area of 8.7 kilometres), building single-lane roads (7.3 kilometres), dual-lane roads (1.4 kilometres), constructing two roundabouts and installing traffic signals and road markings. The roads aim to ease access to industrial and service sites.
The project also covers the construction of sewerage networks, potable water networks, irrigation channels, high-voltage and low-voltage electrical networks, street lighting systems and telecommunications channels—all with the prime of objective of establishing an infrastructure that would cope with the needs of investment projects and facilities in the industrial zone.