In one of the most exciting and ambitious transportation projects ever seen in the Arabian Peninsula, plans for a railway linking Oman to the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar and Kuwait are now under way. The first phase of the GCC rail project is scheduled to be operational in late 2018, with the railway eventually extending all the way down...
Recent years have seen a transformation in the logistics sector, with both quantity and quality undergoing major improvements. With several new airports under construction or expansion, along with some major developments in seaports, roads and in the future, railways, the sector is poised to reap the rewards from past investments and take a further step towards realising...
There is a tiny island off of the Musandam Peninsula, the rocky patch of Omani territory that makes up southern extent of the Strait of Hormuz. That island, called Telegraph Island, marked some of the sultanate’s first steps into modern communication technology. The area hosted a telegraph station used by the British Empire, part of a line...
Foreign firms and individual investors can set up business in Oman using one of the following forms:
The creation of a public education system capable of equipping Omanis for a modern economy has been at the centre of government policy for decades. Meanwhile, the private sector that has thrived in Oman since the 1970s has, in recent years, seen a similar expansion of investment at tertiary level that, combined with an increasing amount of...
Some of the most dramatic economic growth outside of Oman’s capital can be found in the port town of Duqm. Located approximately 550 km to the south of Muscat in the Al Wusta region, Duqm was a small fishing community in the 1950s when a team arrived to begin oil exploration in the area. Today economic activity in the town focuses on the...
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