Commerce plans to convert the central market to the private sector
On: Sun 02/12/2012 8:15
□ Baghdad / follow-up term
started and the Ministry of Commerce procedures convert supermarkets to the private sector, because it failed to promote their betterment economy since April 2003.
said Inspector General of the Ministry of Commerce Mohamed Hussein, Zan told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the General Company for supermarkets failed to that promote economic betterment for the past years, and have the perfect solution to convert the private sector. "
He added that "the number of staff supermarkets than 6 000 employees, which is - the market - need to activate the role of investment or participation in order to promote the economic reality and that can pay the salaries of Mozfahaaly least."
and explained that "the supermarkets is covered by a restructuring and that the 40 markets spread in all the provinces headed the ministry about investing and activating the role of the private sector. "
and called for the Economic Commission representative, Ministry of Commerce to resolve two supermarkets and import cars and the integration of employees of other companies.
He said the "prompt resolution of the General Company for cars of the ministry can not be applied, because it is a finance company Self-winning, not losing companies such as supermarkets. "
In the meantime, contracted Department of Commerce with an Egyptian company to supply 25 thousand tons of vegetable oils for distribution under the ration card items for the current year.
The Director of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry of Commerce Hashim Hatem told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) , that the Ministry of Commerce has contracted with an Egyptian company called Armagh to supply 25 thousand tons of vegetable oils with high quality for distribution within the ration card items for the current year, "adding that" due to be enough that the imported quantity of oil the country's need for a period of three months. "
He said Hatem that "it is expected to reach the first shipment of that amount of oil to Iraq through the port of Umm Qasr, Basra in the 23 this month," noting that "the conclusion of the contract comes within the framework of supporting Iraq to Egypt against the backdrop of the deteriorating conditions of the economic."
He added by saying "The production capacity of the Egyptian Company contracted by the ministry does not cover the need for Iraq of material oil, so the ministry tended to contracts with Turkish companies and the Argentine to provide the remainder of the country's need for that article."
noted the official, the Ministry of Commerce to "guide the ministry's invitation to all Egyptian companies to visit Iraq and to identify investment opportunities and the tenders of the ration cards for the supply of materials, especially oil and sugar to the country that the Egypt of the most important producers of such articles. "
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