Mercabarna’s Training Area offers a wide variety of training courses to Food Unit businesses. The courses are aimed at both managers and employees, enabling them either to learn new skills or to update their knowledge and awareness of techniques and trends.
In October, the postgraduate course on Wholesale Food Company Management will be offered for the sixth time.
Representatives of the city halls of Medellín and Envigado in Colombia visited Mercabarna on 8 July, accompanied by members of the Institute for Municipal Markets and Barcelona City Council.
In recent months, Mercabarna management has visited the Border Inspection Points (BIPs) in the ports of Tarragona and Valencia and at Vitoria Airport.
On 2 July, Mercabarna’s management team visited the Lleida Agrofood Science and Technology Park, accompanied by the centre’s manager Josep Clotet and its science director Santiago Planas.
The high-rise car park opposite the Calle K entrance, which until now has only been open to pass holders, will also open to occasional visitors who wish to leave their vehicles there or who experience difficulty parking elsewhere in the precinct.
Mateu Hernández, director of Barcelona City Council’s Economic Promotion Department and vice-chair of Mercabarna, accompanied by the heads of the city’s different management areas, including Albert González, director of Trade and Consumer Affairs, visited the Food Unit on 9 July.
In July a total of 25 students from 20 fruit and vegetable companies in Mercabarna took a course on mushroom identification, organised by the Training Area and the Fruit and Vegetable Wholesalers’ Guild of Barcelona and Province (AGEM).
The national company Mercasa recently asked AECOC (an association that groups together manufacturers and distributors from several sectors) to carry out a study to assess the viability of implementing a reusable container pool for the fruit and vegetable sector in Spain’s different wholesale markets.
On 21 June, the Santa Coloma de Cervelló agricultural cooperative presented the new image of its sales point in the Central Fruit and Vegetable Market.
