Omani cement producer Raysut Cement has won a contract to supply 200,00t of resistant cement for the expansion of the Omani Salalah Port, the company said. The port will start expansion works at the beginning of 2006.

Port operator Salalah Port Services is 30 per cent owned by Danish industrial and shipping group AP Moller - Maersk Group and 70 per cent owned by the Omani government and private investors.