The National Centre for Statistics and Information, in cooperation with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, implemented on (Tuesday, 18th February 2025, a workshop on the "National Accounts and the activities of Transport and Storage in the Sultanate of Oman “, where a number of representatives of the entities concerned with the logistics sector participated in the workshop.

The attendants included representatives of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology, Oman Investment Authority, Ministry of Economy, Civil Aviation Authority, and Asyad Group.  

The implementation of this workshop harmonizes with the role played by NCSI in building statistical capabilities, enhancing the principle of cooperation and partnership with various government entities.

The workshop aims to strengthen economic knowledge of the national accounts system, highlighting the ways of monitoring the indicators of transport and storage activities and the mechanism of calculating the contribution of transport and storage activities to the gross domestic product.

It also aims to enhance the knowledge about the economic data analysis mechanism, as the transport and storage activities are closely linked to the logistics sector, which considered as one of the economic sectors relied upon to achieve economic diversification, in accordance with the goals of the (Oman Vision 2040).

 The workshop included an introduction to national accounts as a set of accounting and statistical principles and foundations that provide a complete image for the national economy, for a specific period, as well as it works to record and analyzes the operations carried out by various economic units.

The workshop also highlighted a few basic concepts of importance in national accounts such as residence concept in the national accounts system, institutional units, economic territory, and institutional operations, while addressing methods of calculating the gross domestic product with practical exercises on calculating the value of gross production, total intermediate consumption, and gross value added.  

The workshop also addressed the sub-accounts, including the nature of sub-accounts, their objectives, and main characteristics, as well as focused on the sub-account for the logistics sector.

The event also highlighted the mechanism for estimating the volume of internal logistics services by using detailed data on transportation and storage within nonspecialized establishments in transportation field and evaluating the logistics services of households by calculating the consumption of logistics assets, such as vehicles and other operating costs.