Outside the Strait of Hormuz, with direct services to South Asia, East Asia and Africa.
Sohar is on Oman's Batinah coast, in the Gulf of Oman. Loading there avoids the transit risk and the war-risk insurance premium that apply to loadings inside the Arabian Gulf — a difference priced into freight and cover on every voyage.
The port is a deepwater terminal with direct container services to the Indian subcontinent, East and Southern Africa, and the Far East, and it is one of the fastest-growing bitumen loading points in the region.
We source penetration grade bitumen directly from established refineries in the Middle East. The producing refinery and the country of origin are fixed at the time of contract, declared on the shipping documents, and evidenced by a Certificate of Origin attested by the competent chamber of commerce.
We do not offer cargo whose origin cannot be documented.
India and Sri Lanka — the largest single destination for Omani bitumen, with sustained national highway and state road programmes. Mundra, Kandla, Chennai, Colombo.
China and the wider Far East, served by direct container services out of Sohar.
East, Southern and West African markets, where imported penetration grade binder underpins most trunk-road construction. Mombasa, Dar es Salaam, and onward by transhipment.
Grade, quantity, packing and destination port is all we need to come back with a written offer, a full specification and a delivery window.
