Fisheries Development Oman Starts the Construction of the Seafood Canning Plant

Fisheries Development Oman Starts the Construction of the Seafood Canning Plant

Muscat: Fisheries Development Oman recently announced the start of the construction of the seafood canning and value addition plant in Al Wusta Governorate, the Wilayat of Duqm, expected to be inaugurated in Q1 2024 in line with the Company's Fisheries development strategy.

"The project will create investment opportunities that will ensure the ready availability of fisheries products and the localization of the fish product value chain that will contribute to the GDP noting that the tuna canning project was designed according to the latest specifications and quality and food safety standards. Phase 1 capacity will be 100 million cans per year," Engineer/ Ali Nasser Al-Rasbi, the General Manager of the International Sea Food Company the manufacturing arm of Fisheries Development Oman, commented.

"The project comes as a complement to the efforts already expended and a part of the output of Tanfeedh Program which is aligned with Oman Vision 2040 and will promote the Sultanate's vision of economic diversification by maximizing the return on the fisheries in which the Sultanate abounds and increasing the fish product value chain before export to the global markets.

The plant will promote GDP through the local supply chains of which several Omani SMEs will avail themselves, which will