Qatar’s Umm Salal Central Market has now become an integrated marketing platform that offers all basic commodities like meat, fish, and vegetables, to serve the needs of traders, producers, and consumers, with the aim to contribute to achieving food security, as well as support local products.
Hassad Food, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qatar Investment Authority, has fully developed the Fish Market located inside Umm Salal Central Market according to the latest global standards.
The market currently spans over 3,300 square meters (sqm) and includes 62 fish shops, an auction yard on 2,100 sqm, as well a fish cleaning section, visitors waiting area, and an ice factory to meet the needs of traders.
Following the successful cooperation between the Ministry of Municipality and Hassad, the ministry has recently inaugurated the local products’ yard in Um Salal Central Market, while Aswaq for Food Facilities Management (a subsidiary of Hassad) developed and fully equipped the yard, which includes 44 counters dedicated to selling local produce.
Mr. Mubarak Al Sahuti, Executive Director of Business Relations, Hassad Food, stated that this cooperation is a model for successful strategic integrations between state institutions.
In line with Hassad’s plan to support local breeders, the company has dedicated a suitable space within the market, to hold an auction for owners of livestock productive farms. Further, the central market includes a private slaughterhouse with a production capacity of up to 1,000 heads per day, in addition to livestock barns, vegetables and fruits shops, multi-service shops, cold stores, supermarket, mosque, and a number of administrative offices.
Spanning over 70,000 sqm, Umm Salal Central Market is located at the intersection of modern and central highways, which connects the market directly to the main ports in Al Wakra, Al Ruwais, Al Khor and Doha, that supplies nearly 80 percent of the fish to the market. Moreover, the market is close to many high-density areas, which makes its location convenient for all categories such as traders, producers, and consumers.
