TIRANA, Sept 21 /ATA/ Markets or wholesale markets for seafood are forms that have been missing in Albania. The first market of its kind will open in Shengjin putting Albania on a par with other Mediterranean countries, but also with EU countries in this sector.
Roland Kristo, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, in an interview with Albanian Telegraphic Agency, stated that the wholesale seafood markets operate through auction sale. Today the sales treaties between fishing boats and businessmen are privately negotiated and controlled through the fuel scheme, as they are private ventures. While we are developing a wholesale seafood market, prices will be 100% declared and the electronic form of operation will set the real cost of seafood sale for both fishermen, traders and consumers.
“Forms of electronic trading, is the most modern way that guarantees the whole process of auction sale, whereby prices are public and all liabilities of trading entities to the state are registered and automatically calculate obligations and payments to the state,” – Kristo explained
It is a modern form widely used in EU countries, and we are currently in the process of designing a model to make sure that will not be costly for fishing boats and market players but also to formalize the sector that generates budget revenues.
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