MUSCAT: Oman Shipping Company (OSC), the nation’s principal marine transportation services provider, is keenly eyeing opportunities associated with multibillion dollar investments in a mega refinery and proposed petrochemicals cluster planned in Duqm Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
Duqm, positioned as the new national growth pole, has the potential to drive new business growth for the state-owned shipping line — part of ASYAD Group, the holding company of government shareholdings in various port, free zone, transport, logistics and related enterprises in the Sultanate. Coupled with opportunities linked to ballooning bulk commodity exports, chiefly aggregates and minerals, as well as the energy and petrochemicals sectors, prospects for an uptick in OSC’s business activities are brightening going into 2018, OSC’s chief executive officer, Tariq al Junaidi (pictured) said.