Muscat: The Particular Financial Zone at Duqm (SEZAD) will host the primary Duqm Now session of 2026, Duqm Made, 7:30pm, Wednesday 11 February 2026 at Crowne Plaza Duqm.
Duqm is constructed for business and in a commerce surroundings the place tariffs, compliance expectations and routing selections are evolving quickly, industrial places are more and more judged on how properly they convert output into exports, on time and with minimal friction. With its location on the Arabian Sea and proximity to main delivery lanes, Duqm is properly positioned to assist firms searching for resilient routes and reliable working situations.
The backdrop is a world buying and selling system that is still massive, energetic and extra politically and operationally advanced. UNCTAD estimates world commerce reached a document degree of greater than US$35 trillion in 2025. On the similar time, WTO economists have pointed to weaker prospects for 2026, noting the results of upper tariffs and ongoing coverage uncertainty. The IMF equally expects commerce coverage uncertainty to stay elevated by 2026, together with in relation to tariffs.
Commenting on the session, Eng. Ahmed Akaak, CEO, SEZAD, mentioned: “Duqm Made is about what turns manufacturing into reliable exports. We’ll observe the journey from output to cargo utilizing actual examples from main Duqm tenants, what retains requirements constant, operations working easily and items transferring rapidly from manufacturing facility gate to ship. We’ll additionally cowl the documentation, together with emissions information, that consumers more and more count on. If you happen to construct, make investments, provide or assist industrial exercise, you’ll come away with a transparent image of what robust export efficiency appears like in observe.”
Oman’s commerce figures assist clarify why this operational focus issues. NCSI information for January to October 2025 reveals whole merchandise exports of RO19.3bn (US$50bn), whereas non-oil exports rose 9.9% to RO5.6bn (US$14.5bn) in contrast with the identical interval of 2024, a reminder {that a} rising share of Oman’s export momentum is coming from the components of the economic system that depend on constant, repeatable supply.
February’s Duqm Now session will deliver collectively traders, tenants, suppliers and companions to take a look at how competitiveness is inbuilt observe, with consideration to what will get measured, the place time is saved and the way supply stays predictable as volumes develop.
