HODEIDA February 06. 2024 (Saba) -The Office of Industry and Trade in Hodeida Governorate achieved positive performance indicators, improved services, and strengthened efforts to monitor markets and control violations.
The Office of Industry has taken qualitative steps in addressing the imbalances, correcting the performance of the administrative work system, and institutional transition in consolidating the regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Trade to follow up on price stability.
These steps, in addition to the field work carried out, contributed to activating the activity of the office’s branches in the directorates through central inspection and evaluation committees, in completing transactions and cases of commercial violations before the courts.
The office’s leadership plan, during the first half of the year 1445 AH, resulted in raising the level and efficiency of services, starting work on the electronic window services, and working on the system of automatic issuance of commercial registry cards to facilitate the completion of commercial transactions.
It launched intensive monitoring campaigns on the markets, in addition to field visits to factories and companies in coordination with the Ministry of Industry, and established communication channels and a database to track the quantities of materials arriving at the ports and transporting them to the governorates.
The reform efforts and the plan to improve institutional building were reflected in the restructuring of the departments of the Industry Office, the distribution of tasks and competencies at the administrative, technical and field levels, and the mechanism and procedures for preventing abuses, extortion and corruption.
According to statistics included in the report of the Bureau of Industry and Commerce on the activity of the first half of the year 1445 AH, the total violations that were detected during the monitoring campaigns and visits to inspect the markets amounted to one thousand and 55 violations.
He reported that the violations included 256 violations in Al-Hali District, 174 violations in Al-Hawk District, 217 in Al-Mina District, 96 in Bajil, 51 in Bayt Al-Faqih, 15 in Al-Zaidiyah, 25 in Al-Dhahi, 27 in Zabid, 22 in Al-Marawa’ah, 40 in Al-Qanawis, and 25 in Al-Sokhna, 31 in Al-Jarrahi, 13 in Al-Mansouriya, and two violations in Al-Lahiya District.
The report indicated that the seized violations included 20 violations in Al-Durayhimi District, 21 violations in Al-Zahra District, 13 violations in Al-Tuhayta District, one violation in Al-Maghlaf District, and six violations in Al-Hujaila District.
According to the report, the violations were divided into 214 violations for not announcing prices, 57 raising prices, four violations for selling without invoices, 244 damaged and expired goods, one violation for tampering with the expiration period, 21 for not having scales, 412 for underweight bread, two violations for not selling on scales.
The violations were divided into three for specifications, 27 refusals to inspect, five for commercial fraud, a monopoly violation, 11 for poor storage, a violation for non-compliance with procedures, nine violations for non-compliance with health and technical requirements, 14 for lack of a commercial register, and 24 other violations.
The report pointed out that registration and renewal operations for the commercial registry during the first half reached 376 records that were registered, renewed, and special cards issued for them.
The Director of the Office of Industry and Trade in Hodeida, Yahya Saleh Atifa, confirmed that measures taken regarding the violations that were detected during the past six months of the current year, by the regulations governing commercial activity and the circulars issued by Ministry of Industry.
He pointed to the steps taken by the office in forming a committee to follow up on the rationing situation composed of relevant authorities, by decision of the leadership of the local authority in the governorate, to follow up on food, oil and medicine stocks, and to coordinate the transport of goods to the governorates.
Atifa touched on the importance of Hodeida Governorate, as it is the main artery that feeds the governorates and the important port for receiving, transporting, and deporting goods arriving at the Red Sea ports, indicating that the role of the Office of Industry and Trade in the governorate, in addition to its regular activity, lies in intensive coordination to create a strategic supply stock and follow up on the import movement.
He stated that the efforts that were made during the last period, in correcting the activity status of the main administration of the industrial office in the governorate and its branches in the directorates, and rearranging the missing and overlapping tasks, contributed to improving performance and activating coordination with the leadership of the governorate and the Ports, Factories and Companies Corporation.
The Director of the Industry Office in Hodeida reviewed the efforts being made to follow up on the quantities of materials arriving at the ports and coordinate their deportation, and prepare daily, weekly and monthly statistics on the activity arriving and deported to the governorates, the reserve stock, and a report on the quantities that were imported and other detailed data and tasks in this regard.
He stated that the plan to develop the office’s performance and activity is based on several paths, including improving the relationship with merchants and businessmen to encourage local products, which is emphasized by the revolutionary leadership, the Supreme Political Council, and the Ministry of Industry.
Atifa appreciated the cooperation of the leadership of the Ministry of Industry and the local authority in the governorate and their keenness to continue improving the office’s activity and stimulating its work plans and programs due to its importance to the commercial and economic activity of Hodeida Governorate, which represents an important commercial and economic outlet for the country.
He stressed that the plans, programs, performance and directions of the Industry Office to keep pace with the wide industrial and commercial activity in Hodeida Governorate, aim to establish regulations governing this activity to secure the needs for goods and to take strict measures against anyone.
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resource : SABA
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