Nine new road construction agreements – worth RO23.6 million ($61.7 million) and involving a total distance of more than 500 km – have been signed in Muscat, Oman.

Al Shanfari Trading and Contracting, Khalid bin Ahmed and Sons, National Construction and Trading, Galfar Engineering and Contracting, Projects and Transport Arab and Khaleej Oman have won the contracts.
The deal with Al Shanfari (RO4.7 million) is for designing and building a road linking Al Batinah with Al Dhahirah. The 50-km road extends from Al Ghaisain to Maskan villages and will be implemented in 850 days.
Khalid bin Ahmed and Sons will design and construct a road linking Al Batinah with Al Dhahirah at a cost of RO3 million. The road starts from Al Lihaiban in Saham and ends at Kahnat in Ibri. The 45-km road project will be completed in 570 days.
The RO1.6 million deal with the National Construction  entails asphalting a 31.5-km-long stretch from Ras Al Jabal school to Al Owaifiyah health centre in the Wilayat of Adam. Under a separate RO800,000 contract, the company is also asphalting a road from Fahud to Al Owaifiyah school in Adam.
Galfar Engineering has signed a RO8.6 million deal to rehabilitate Al Batinah road from Bait Al Barakah roundabout to Al A’qr roundabout (232 km) and from Al A’qr roundabout to Al Wajajah (22 km) in 2007.
Under a RO2.8 million contract, Khaleej Oman Company will undertake the first phase of the Mahut Nizwa/ Thumrait junction road (40 km).
Construction work for the 42 km-long Al Naba Ismaeiah road in the Sharqiyah region was covered by an agreement (RO1 million) signed with the Projects and Transport Arab Company.
The two other agreements costing RO600,000 and RO450,000 were awarded for building a 30-km-long graded road in the Sharqiyah and constructing a roundabout and developing a junction on Al Batinah dual carriageway, respectively.