New wholesale market expected to open in 2017

The schedule for opening the new wholesale market has slipped one year behind and is now expected to be operational in 2017, according to the President of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM), Alex Vong Iao Lek. Initially, the project was expected to open to the public in 2016.
“The construction works started last year, and in 2017 the wholesale market may become operational. It will be a two-storey building when it starts operating and an extra storey may be added in the future”, Mr.
Vong said.
Previously, the government said the project would be ready in 2016 and that it would cost MOP860 million. The contractor for the project is the Mainland company Guangdong Nam Yue Group Co. Ltd.
Yesterday, during the presentation of the results of the public consultation on the new law on consumer rights, the President of IACM said that the bureau was working to bring competition to the sector by increasing the public supply of vegetables not only in number but also in type. Concerning the licences to sell fresh products, he said the government had already handed out new permits last year.
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