Oman government is working on a plan to build a large modern automated container terminal at Sohar Port, which will have a capacity to handle five million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) per annum. The government authorities are waiting for an internal approval, which will be in line with the commercial discussion with the port operator. The basic infrastructure for the proposed terminal (terminal D) will be developed by the government, while the superstructure will be built by the container terminal operator – Oman International Container Terminal (OITC), Mahdi Al Lawatia, Southern Development Director of Sohar Port told. The current container handling capacity of Sohar is around 2mn TEUs and the port’s actual annual container handling is close to the capacity. The expansion will take the total container handling capacity to 7 mn TEUs per year, once it is ready. (Times of Oman)