Location
Oman / Middle East
Project record
Masirah multipurpose fishing port
Oman News Agency; exact Masirah multipurpose port contract signing and plan boards
A joint venture of Khimji Ramdas Construction and Archimedes Marine Engineering and Contracting holds Oman's Masirah multipurpose fishing-port contract. The February 2025 Tender Board record gives an OMR 28.612 million value; the March contract signing was reported at approximately OMR 28 million. The disclosed marine scope comprises 4,172 m of breakwaters, basin deepening to a stated 5-7 m range, an 1,100 m skiff beach and 13 floating pontoons. The designer, dredging plant, rock supplier, pontoon supplier and navigation-aid package have not been named publicly.
Segment
Port infrastructure
Status
OMR 28.612 million design-and-build award confirmed; current construction progress and marine subcontract chain remain partly undisclosed / Confirmed
Last checked
1 August 2026
Coverage
Related sectors
Port infrastructure is the primary work classification. Related sectors connect this record to adjacent marine delivery and market coverage.
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Project anatomy
Contract scope and delivery roles
- Client / authority
- Oman Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources
- Delivery parties
- Khimji Ramdas Construction LLC - joint-venture prime contractor, Archimedes Marine Engineering and Contracting LLC - joint-venture prime contractor, Designer, dredging contractor, quarry and armour supplier, pontoon supplier and navigation-aid contractor - not publicly identified
- Contract route
- Government design-and-construction contract approved by the Oman Tender Board in February 2025 and signed with the Khimji Ramdas-Archimedes joint venture on 3 March 2025.
- Execution window
- Award approved in February 2025 and contract signed on 3 March 2025. By 1 August 2026, the owner and contractors had not published a completion date or accepted progress percentage.
- Works package
- Construct a multipurpose fishing port serving fisheries, tourism, commercial users and the Royal Oman Police across an approximately 1.8 million m2 development area. Marine works include 4,172 m of breakwaters, basin deepening to a stated 5-7 m range, an 1,100 m skiff beach and 13 floating pontoons for skiffs and yachts.
- Marine interfaces
- Breakwater geometry, quarry and armour supply, basin excavation, dredged-material routing, beach formation, pontoon anchoring, navigation access and land-side services must be coordinated around Masirah's exposed island coastline and sensitive turtle environment. The award does not establish accepted depth, completed protection works or operational release.
- Commercial evidence boundary
- The prime contract and headline quantities are public, but the downstream marine chain is still open. Priority disclosures are designer and engineer appointments, dredging and rock packages, pontoon and mooring supply, aids to navigation, marine plant mobilisation, environmental controls and measured progress by workfront.
Project timeline
Material developments
Dated events that changed scope, counterparties, delivery, commissioning or operating status.
Open this project in the Change LogThe Ministry signed the Masirah port contract
The signing confirmed Khimji Ramdas Construction and Archimedes Marine Engineering as the joint-venture delivery team and published the breakwater, basin, beach and pontoon scope. Downstream package allocation and field progress remained undisclosed.
SourceThe Tender Board approved the OMR 28.612 million award
The government approval established the precise procurement value and moved the project from programme intent into an awarded delivery route.
SourceEvidence gap
What remains unverified
Outstanding evidence
- Designer, supervising engineer and design-approval route
- Dredging contractor, plant, volume, material route and final hydrography
- Quarry, core, filter, armour and concrete protection-unit supply
- Breakwater construction progress and closure sequence
- Pontoon, anchoring, gangway and marine-services suppliers
- Navigation aids, lighting and port-entry approval
- Turtle-season and coastal-environment controls
- Owner acceptance, opening and sustained vessel use
Sources and related records
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Source collections
Project sources 4
- Agreement signed to establish fishing port in Masirah Oman News Agency, 3 March 2025
- Tender Board awards projects worth more than OMR 145 million Oman News Agency, 5 February 2025
- Khimji Ramdas and Archimedes sign OMR 28 million fishery port deal Khimji Ramdas Infrastructure, March 2025
- OMR 28 million pact signed for fishing port in Masirah Times of Oman, reporting the ONA release, 3 March 2025