International Seafood Company (ISFC), a subsidiary of state-owned Oman Food Investment Holding Company, has invited local and international contractors to prequalify for the construction and commissioning of a seafood cannery plant at Duqm Fisheries Complex.

14 January 2021 is the last submission date, according to the prequalification document on ISFC's website.

The cannery plant would have a covered built-up area of 40,000 square metres, and house cannery operations, cold storage, offices, worker amenities, the document said. The project will also include an empty can plant, fishmeal and oil plants; desalination and sewage treatment plants, and a substation.

It said the cannery plant would have a total production capacity of 88 kilo tonnes per year of sardine, tuna, fishmeal and fish oil.

It added that engineering design work has commenced, and construction packages are expected to be floated by the end of the first quarter of 2021.

(Writing by Sowmya Sundar; Editing by Anoop Menon)

(anoop.menon@refinitiv.com)

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