The Sultan Qaboos Port (Muscat) will no longer be used for the transportation of goods and will be converted into a tourist center. All commercial traffic will be transferred to the industrial port of Sohar. The government of Oman has indicated that the freight traffic in the port of Sultan Qaboos will not be interrupted until at least December 31, 2012, expiration date of the grant with which the company Port Services Corporation SAOG (PSC) operates the airport since November 1976.
Last year the Port Sultan Qaboos has moved 10,643,884 tons of cargo compared to 10,499,560 tons in 2009 added up. In 2010 the port has recorded the calls of 109 cruise ships for a traffic of 348,975 passengers compared to 84 ships for 220,705 passengers in the previous year.
In the first quarter of this year the port Sultan Qaboos has climbed from 62 cruise ships for a traffic of approximately 215 thousand passengers compared to 49 ships 197mila passengers in the first three months of 2010.
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The Sultan Qaboos Port (Muscat) will no longer be used for the transportation of goods and will be converted into a tourist center. All commercial traffic will be transferred to the industrial port of Sohar. The government of Oman has indicated that the freight traffic in the port of Sultan Qaboos will not be interrupted until at least December 31, 2012, expiration date of the grant with which the company Port Services Corporation SAOG (PSC) operates the airport since November 1976. 
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