EghtesadOnline: Iran traded $736.63 million worth of non-oil goods with Oman during the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2018), marking a 13.63% rise compared to the year before, making the Arab country Iran’s 22nd biggest trading partner.

EghtesadOnline: Non-oil trade between Iran and Oman during the first nine months of the current Iranian year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2017) amounted to more than 1.33 million tons worth $393 million, registering a 24% rise in weight but a 12% fall in value, Iran’s commercial attaché to the neighboring country announced.

EghtesadOnline: The new shipping route launched between Iran’s Khorramshahr Port and Oman’s Sohar Port on Saturday is expected to increase bilateral trade to $5 billion in the next four years, the chairman of Iran-Oman Chamber of Commerce said.

EghtesadOnline: A container ship that left Iran’s Khorramshar Port last Saturday to mark the official opening of Khorramshahr-Sohar shipping route docked at Omani port on Jan. 4.

EghtesadOnline: Ithraa, Oman’s inward investment and export promotion agency, recently held a one-day workshop at the Public Authority for Civil Aviation Training Center, to explore the challenges Omani exporters face in doing business in Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi attended a meeting with Oman’s Minister of Transport and Communications Ahmed bin Mohammed bin Salem Al-Futaisi and his Qatari counterpart, Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, in Doha, Qatar, on Tuesday.

EghtesadOnline: A memorandum of understanding was signed between Iran-Oman Chamber of Commerce and Export Guarantee Fund of Iran on Tuesday to help boost cooperation between traders of the two countries, Iran’s export of technical and engineering services to Oman and expansion of Iran’s non-oil exports to Oman.

EghtesadOnline: Oman could serve as an important bridge between Iran and Africa and a gateway for the Islamic Republic to export its products to markets in the Continent, a trade official in this northern Iranian province announced on Saturday.