The primary is Hafeet Rail, the cross-border line between Oman and the United Arab Emirates included within the design of an built-in railway community of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The goal: to attach the port of Sohar to Abu Dhabi, strengthening logistics integration and accompanying the transition to extra sustainable transport. The venture is indicated as being within the execution section, with an estimated worth of roughly USD 2.5 billion and a deliberate size of between 238 and 303 kilometres.
The second is the Mascate Metro, nonetheless within the starting stage, however already central to the capital’s ambitions: a primary city rail community of some 50 km and 36 stations, with an estimated funding of USD 2.6 billion. For Italian corporations, the message is evident: not simply tracks, however methods – city mobility, automation, electrical infrastructure – the place the added worth lies in know-how and integration.
The Italian provide
Summing up the that means of the mission is Vincenzo de Martino, President of Anie Confindustria: ‘Italian corporations present consolidated experience and superior technological options within the fields of sustainable mobility and power. Oman’s path of financial diversification and the rising give attention to sustainability additional strengthen the prospects for cooperation with Italian trade’.
The numbers, furthermore, inform of a market with ample room for enchancment: in 2025, Italia-Oman commerce within the electrical engineering and electronics sectors exceeded 70 million euros, with power applied sciences accounting for round 76% of the full. Italia’s exports on this sector rank sixth amongst Oman’s essential companions, and a few niches are significantly aggressive: energy era (second place within the 2025 rating, 15.1% share), lifts (third place, 7.6%), lighting (4.3%).
For Valerio Soldani, director of the Ice Workplace in Dubai, which can also be accountable for Oman, ‘an necessary operation of our Ice in Oman permits us to create hyperlinks and relations between Italian corporations of excellence and top-level Omani counterparts, with decision-making energy in main growth initiatives within the strategic sectors of power, infrastructure, and mobility.
