New roads for Oman's port project

Oman's Directorate General of Roads and Land Transport has awarded US engineering and construction firm Parsons a contract to provide design and construction supervision services for the expansion of the Nizwa-Thumrait road. Under the deal, Parsons is required to provide preliminary and detailed design as well as providing tender documents, construction supervision, traffic study and analysis along with alignment study and finalisation. The project includes the conversion of a single 715km carriageway betwe

In Oman plans are in hand for a major road widening project. The project calls for the widening of the 715km Adam-Thumrait highway. Local contractor, Ghantoot Transport and General Contracting Establishment (GTGC) made an offer of US$285.7 million for phase one of the project. GTGC also offered $229.9 million for the second phase of the project. Other contractors have submitted bids including Galfar Engineering and Contracting, Strabag Oman, Ozkar Construction Co, Consolidated Contractors Co, Dogus Construc

A Turkish contractor is to handle a major road project in Oman worth over US$304 million.