Friday 27 / December / 2024
Muscat: Larsen & Toubro (Oman) has been contracted to construct the terminal building and associated facilities for a regional airport in Oman, which is said to be Sohar.
“Larsen & Toubro (Oman), a subsidiary of L&T, has bagged an order worth $93.1 million from a prestigious client to construct a regional airport in the Sultanate of Oman. The scope of work includes the construction of a passenger terminal building, an air traffic control (ATC) complex, cargo and other service buildings, including mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) works, special systems and external works,” L&T India said in a stock market filing on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Although the statement did not mention the regional airport, it is learnt that it is the Sohar airport, which was awarded by the Tender Board few months ago. The project is scheduled to be completed in two years.
This will be the third airport project to be executed by L&T in the country, after Salalah and Duqm.
Like the Duqm regional airport, the terminal building of the Sohar airport is designed to handle half a million passengers per annum and the scope of work (of third package) includes two air bridges connecting the terminal with aircraft.
The first and second packages of the Sohar airport project were completed in 2015, which followed Oman Air starting its regular service to Muscat using a temporary terminal building.
The first two packages of the Sohar airport work included civil works and infrastructure work, such as constructing a four kilometre-long runway, 30 kilometres of airport service roads, as well as a rainwater protection system, the outer fence of the airport, a security fence, power plants, a wastewater treatment plant, pumping stations for water distribution network, a communications network, a fire system, a protection system of Aflaj, the final layers of the runway, aircraft taxiways, roads, a fuel station, runway lighting systems, an aircraft filling system and setting up equipment required for the operation of the airport.
The development of three additional regional airports — Sohar, Duqm and Ras Al Hadd — is part of a major government initiative to build airport infrastructure to meet the increasing travel demand of tourists, businessmen and the local community.
