Controlling movement a challenge: Official

ONE of the biggest challenges facing Port Moresby’s major markets is controlling the movement of people in and out of these places, a market official says.
Waigani market controller Brian Loriko told The National that on most occasions the market staff had to deal with long queues especially in the afternoon.
He said markets could get congested especially during peak periods of the day and on weekends as they provided city residents a variety of local produce at cheap prices.
Loriko said, in terms of security, the market management had not received any complaints from either the vendors or the buyers.
He said the market was established 15 years ago and he believed it was due for renovations to improve the setting for vendors and customers.
Loriko said he was hopeful the market authority would implement its plan to renovate the market soon.
Loriko said in regards to managing the vendors, they were not assigned specific locations at the market and were free to sell their goods wherever there was space.
He said with the increase in numbers of vendors and customers, the market needed to be upgraded to cater for all.