Aids to Navigation (AtoN)

The Arabian Maritime and Navigation Aids Services (AMNAS) looks after hundreds of visual aids to navigation along the Sultanate’s 1,709 nautical mile (3,600 kilometre) coastline and offshore islands.

Our Aids to Navigation

AMNAS owned and operated:

7 Main Lighthouses
3 Secondary Lighthouses
13 Main Harbour Light Beacons
35 secondary Beacons
3 Precision Direction lights
83 Channel or Coastal buoys
6 Safe water/fairway buoys
13 Harbour buoys
7 Radar Beacons
4 AIS Base stations

Other Services

3 DGPS chain station

AMNAS maintains other 91 AtoN under contracts

Useful Links

Royal Decree No. 81 / 2003

Approving the Aids to Navigation franchise agreement between the Omani Government and Arabian Maritime & Navigation Aids Services LLC (AMNAS).

AtoN Failure Report

Toll Free No

80070070

Muscat Office

Al Ma’abela Industrial area
Block number 377
Street number 7767
Building Number 11525
P.O Box : 369 P.C : 122 Ma’abela
Sultanate of Oman.
Tel: +968 24462000, Fax: +968 24462010
E-mail: [email protected]