Iranian companies can register again in the Omani port of Sohar after the restored unilateral US sanctions had banned the process, according to the Iran-Oman Joint Chamber of Commerce.
The decision was announced by the legal department of the Sohar Free Zone concurrent with the visiting of two Iranian business delegations in the Omani port.
Those companies whose products, services, managers and shareholders are not included in the list of US sanctions, can register in the Sohar Free Zone, Iran-Oman Joint Chamber of Commerce announced Wednesday.
It adds that food and steel companies as well as logistical firms among others not sanctioned by the US can start registering in the Omani port, located in the north of the country, some 200 kilometers west of the capital Muscat.
Oman and Iran enjoy warm and friendly relations and have been eager to upgrade their trade ties through the transit and transport from southern Iranian ports to several Omani cities, including the Sohar Free Zone.
Earlier in December, the joint chamber of commerce announced the launch of a fourth direct shipping line between Iran and Oman. The new private sector shipping line between Iran’s southern Jask Port and Oman’s Al Suwaiq Port is used to transport wholesale Iranian commodities to the Persian Gulf country using containers.