The interest in ensuring success in Sohar has not precluded efforts to ensure that other areas of the country also develop. Salalah is home to a container terminal, which is jointly owned by the Omani government, AP Moller Terminals and Omani shareholders. The terminal has been sufficiently successful that it is now being expanded to add two new berths to the existing four. New equipment is part of the package, and in October the Oman News Agency said that Salalah Port had taken delivery of six new cranes. The work will bring capacity to 4m TEUs, up from the current level of about 2.4m TEUs.

Adjacent to Salalah Port will be the Salalah Free Zone. Work on the first phase of that project is under way, with infrastructure to serve potential investors under construction. That phase of the project covers some 200 ha, although a total of 2,000 ha has been allocated for use by the Free Zone Authority.