Invest Easy portal helps cuts queues at offices in Oman

Muscat: With the Invest Easy portal picking up, less people approached the departments and directorates of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry in 2016, according to the ministry.
In all 21,507 transactions were received through the Invest Easy portal in 2016, the Ministry said.
The transactions were in the fields of cancellation of mortgage of trading establishments, addition and transfer of activities, renewal of commercial agencies’ registration, cancellation of industrial permits, updating and renewal of industrial permits, correction of details of commercial agencies and industrial registration, suspension of commercial registrations, applications for industrial licences or permits, liquidation of companies and transfer of ownership among other transactions.
The ministry said that the investors, businessmen and owners of SMEs have moved to avail from e-services which contributed to the increase in the number of
transactions.
This has also reduced the number of customers who have physically approached the departments and directorates of the Ministry in the various governorates of the Sultanate, added the Ministry.