Article: oman : Oman awards airport contracts.

Byline: shiv03

Oman s transport ministry announced it has awarded more than US$1.5 billion (Dh5.5bn) in airport infrastructure contracts to companies from Turkey, France, Germany and the US.

More contracts are expected this year. Oman is expanding Muscat and Salalah international airports and developing four new regional airports in a multibillion-dollar project to stimulate trade and tourism.

The country s flag-carrier, Oman Air, is also growing and in 2007 announced a deal to buy five new Airbus wide-bodied A330s, scheduled for delivery within the next two years.

Most of the deals announced this week involved construction work, but ...

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