Another pharaonic construction site in the heart of the Arabian desert.
Since 2011, the Sultanate of Oman has been working to transform the small coastal town of Duqm into a gigantic multi-purpose port with global influence, with the added bonus of an international airport, a gigantic refinery and a luxurious tourist and residential complex... To carry out this titanic project, the Omani authorities chose to partner with the port of Lorient (Morbihan) - the leading French fishing port in terms of value -, through a consortium responsible for the construction of the superstructures then management during 28 years of the fishing branch of the port of Duqm.
The Omani port complex plans to “
receive and process 200,000 tonnes of seafood products annually within five years, then 500,000 tonnes within ten years, or even a million tonnes in the longer term
”, says the presentation brochure. .
A mountain compared to some 80,000 tonnes annually in Lorient.
If this exceptional collaboration - a first for a French port - has remained relatively under the radar since 2019, a few words from Maurice Benoish, the project leader on the French side, were enough to set the fire...
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