Baghdad – WAA – Nassar Al-Hajj
The Ministry of Trade confirmed, today, Friday, that the General Company for Central Markets has prepared a well-thought-out plan to resume its activity, noting the imminent opening of 3 markets in Baghdad as part of a comprehensive plan to open 19 sites.
The Director General of the Central Markets Company, Zahra Al-Kilani, told the (INA): “The plan includes concluding partnership contracts and contracts to open marketing outlets with private sector companies specialized in this field, as the focus was on Baghdad Governorate, and there are marketing outlets that will have priority in opening to reach the final stages.”
Al-Kilani added, “Very soon, the central market of Al-Amel neighborhood, Al-Salihiya market, and also Al-Shaab market will be opened. There will also be some markets that have some commercial character, including the central market of Al-Rashid, Al-Khalani building.”
She stressed that “the company has begun concluding contracts in Nineveh, Kirkuk, Kut and Basra, and that the rest of the other markets will witness campaigns to rehabilitate them again,” noting that “the General Company for Central Markets owns 19 central markets throughout Iraq, in addition to other sites, warehouses, complexes and shares that it owns with other ministry companies.”