The Public Authority for Special Economic Zones and Free Zones (OPAZ) has signed the agreements for the third and fourth packages of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at A’Dhahirah Governorate.
The OPAZ agreements cover the construction of a dry port, a veterinary quarantine, and an administrative and commercial buildings complex, at a total cost exceeding $189 million (RO 73 million).
The cost of the third package amounts to $124.99 million (RO 48.058 million). It includes the construction of the infrastructure for the dry port, the veterinary quarantine, and their associated facilities, and will be executed by a coalition comprising EDECS International Contracting Company, EDECS-KSA, EDECS Egypt, and Assarain International Contracting Company.
Meanwhile, the cost of the fourth package stands at $67 million (RO 25.9 million) and includes the construction of the administrative and commercial buildings complex and its accompanying facilities. A coalition comprising Oman Shapoorji and the Saudi company Shapoorji Pallonji will undertake its execution.
The third package agreement provides for the implementation of the first phase of the dry port over an area of one square kilometer out of a total area of four square kilometers. It also includes the construction of the veterinary quarantine, internal roads, a container yard, a customs gate, inspection platforms, customs clearance facilities, electrical substations, maintenance workshops, laboratories, water tanks, and firefighting systems.
This is in addition to supplying the project with X-ray devices and scanners, building administration facilities, offices, rest areas, employee housing, a mosque, a security fence, and surveillance cameras.
The fourth package encompasses the construction of the administrative and commercial buildings complex in the zone, which features the zone’s public square, a business center, an administration building, a commercial center, a hotel, and a health center, along with internal roads and associated facilities. The total built-up area in the current phase reaches 37.3 thousand square meters, as per the statement.
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