Completion of the strategic coastal way in Mahra governorate [Archives:2005/846/Business & Economy]

Implementation and construction works pertaining to tunnels of the strategic coastal road linking the district of Sihoot to Nashtoon area, the governorate of Mahra.

The road is 146 km long at a total cost amounting to $25 million with joint funding by the government and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.

Secretary-General of the Local Council at Hasween district Mohammed Ahmed Shamlan said the project, whose 90% of it was finished up until now, included digging and construction of four tunnels in the Fartak Mountain-1 parallel to Nashtoon coastal area with a length of 1015 meters, the second near to Hasween district with 1540 meters long, the third tunnel, 360 meters long and the forth tunnel 250 meters long.

Mr Shamlan considers the project Sihoot-Nashtoon road in the governorate of Mahra of the important strategic roads as it links the coastal stripe areas of the governorates of Mahra and Hadramout, on the one hand and Yemen to the Sultanate of Oman and via it to the Gulf State on the other. He has made it clear that the project would serve regions of the coastal stripe, facilitate movement trading activity and marketing agricultural, and fish products to the coastal districts of Hasween, Kashan, Sihoot and Maseela in the governorate of Mahra, rich with fish wealth fishery. It would also reduce the time span of the trip between the governorates of Mahra and Hadramout from seventeen hours to just five hours.
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