(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The Kilo Market and a section of wholesale fruit and vegetable outlets at the Central Market closed down yesterday following a fire, are expected to resume trading today.
Trucks carrying fresh supplies from Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain arrived at the market in the morning and shops were waiting for approval from authorities to open for trading, sources said.
"Officials yesterday told us that we could resume trade when the market receives fresh supplies of fruit and vegetables.
"Now trucks are waiting at the market for wholesalers to unload supplies. Most probably business will begin tomorrow," a trader at the Kilo Market told this paper yesterday.
Health officials at Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning removed entire stocks of fruit and vegetables from wholesale market outlets in the morning. They had already removed stocks from retail outlets on Sunday evening.
Since hypermarkets buy fruits and vegetables directly from farmers and traders, it was business as usual for them yesterday and labour camps, eateries and restaurants also met their demand.
A popular hypermarket in Abu Hamour reportedly 'rationed' essential vegetables, including tomatoes, as its stocks ran out fast in the evening, the sources added.
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