Daewoo builds breakwater for an Omani harbor

Oman signed a contract worth $65.64 million with the South Korean company Daewoo to build a breakwater for a harbor in the northern part of the sultanate.

Omani Minister of Transportation Salem bin Abdullah al-Ghazali said Daewoo will establish the six-kilometer breakwater in Sohar Harbor over the course of 18 months and the sultanate will soon declare the areas of harbor the will be effected, located nearly 200 km north of the capital, Muscat.

Sohar state is being developed in the framework of a project to convert it to an industrial center.