Qatar has launched two new shipping services to Omani ports after other Gulf states severed ties with Doha last week.

Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Arab countries cut diplomatic as well as travel and trade ties with Qatar last week and the severing of air, sea and land transport links has closed off key import routes for Qatar and its population of around 2.7 million people. 

Thousands of shipping containers destined for Qatar are still stuck at Dubai's Jebel Ali port, according to Qatari importers.

The two new services will each run three times a week between Qatar's Hamad Port and Omani ports of Sohar in the north and Salalah in the south, Qatar Ports Management Company (Mwani), a Qatari shareholding company established in 2009, announced on Sunday.

Doha has said the severing of trade and transport ties are hurting the country's inhabitants.

Source: Timesofoman