Core tip: Oman's "Observer" reported on December 20 that the Oman Investment Authority, through its subsidiary Oman Food Investment Holding Company, announced that it will invest 26 million rials to develop the "Simak" factory in the Duqm Economic Zone, a tuna and sardine canning factory project with an annual production capacity of 100 million cans, making it one of the largest fish canning factories in the Middle East.