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Request for Proposals (RfP)
Port of Sohar Line Handling Services
Sohar Industrial Port Company SAOC (SIPC) was established in 2002 pursuant to a Concession Agreement between the Government of the Sultanate of Oman (GSO) and the Port of Rotterdam to develop and manage the Port of Sohar and its industrial area measuring approximately 21km². SIPC is a 50/50 joint venture between the two parties.
Actual work started in 2003 and in five years time both an attractive and thriving port as well as an industrial complex have been created. Sohar’s strategic location, deep draught of 18 meters and available infrastructure developed by SIPC, make it the ideal gateway to the entire Gulf region. Businesses and industrial facilities now located at the port include three world class terminals, a hydrocarbon and a steel cluster. More than 11.000 employees currently work at the Sohar Industrial Port area, and the number of employees is expected to increase to 26.000 by 2016.
It is important that the development of the marine services offered keeps abreast of the rapidly increasing number of ships that call the port (>1000 vessels in 2009). SIPC, the port authority and landlord of the port, stimulates additional services to facilitate these already imminent developments. Taking the requirements of vessels into account, it is only natural that, next to the existing services, the enhancement of the Line Handling Services is considered.
SIPC will use an open assessment procedure to select a suitable candidate who can provide Line Handling Services that will further facilitate the marine activities of the Port of Sohar.
Line Handling Service Operators are hereby invited to register or obtain further information on the open assessment procedure by contacting:
Mr. John Hollander
Harbour Master
Sohar Industrial Port Company
Your written application must be received by us no later than Wednesday July 28th 2010.