Oman’s Transport and Communication Ministry has invited contractors to bid on a contract to build roads and infrastructure for its new Duqm port project, located about 600km southwest of the capital Muscat.

Contractors have until 12 July to submit bids for the work. The bid submission date was extended from the original 31 May deadline.

The port project is part of a larger plan to improve the overall transport infrastructure at Duqm, which includes the construction of a new airport.

The ministry recently received bids from five contractors for a $111m infrastructure package on its Duqm airport project. The successful contractor will build a runway and airfield infrastructure.

South Korea’s Hanjin Heavy Industries & Construction Company submitted the lowest bid with a price of OR42.9m ($111.4m). This was 8 per cent lower than the OR46.6m submitted by the second lowest bidder, India’s Larsen & Toubro.

The local Galfar Engineering & Contracting submitted the third lowest bid with a price of OR50.4m. Athens-based Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) submitted a price of OR54.9m and the Turkish group Makyol put forward a bid of OR64.6m (MEED 23:6:10).