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Manpower shortage in Kuwaiti Construction sector

Business Kuwait City 26 Feb 22
Manpower shortage in Kuwaiti Construction sector
Kuwait construction sector is badly hit by COVID. Construction materials price rise could negatively affect the sector.
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Kuwait, Kuwait
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Kuwait City
Start Time
26 February 2022, 12:00 AM
End Time
31 March 2022, 12:00 AM
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The construction sector in Kuwait also did not escape the pandemic impacts. Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), experts commented on the surge in construction material prices, citing shortage of manpower, transportation expenses and decrease in production as factories lowered operational capacity.

Sales and marketing manager of National Industries Company, Basel Al- Turkait, stated that locally, price rise could be attributed to the increase in disbursing residential lands, adding that construction materials price rise is estimated at 30 percent.

He commented that the company has a limited role in instating material prices, saying that plastic witnessed a 50 percent rise because of increasing demand and lack of products in the market, as some sourcing factories were shut down.

On his part, General Manager of Al- Buraq contractions company, Talal Al- Shaibani stated that expenses hiked as a result of skilled workers’ inability to travel during the pandemic, due to travel restrictions imposed at the time.

Al-Shaibani commented that such rise could negatively affect citizens and the constructions sector alike, indicating necessity of putting in place a mechanism regulating the distribution of lands so that high demand would not cause an upsurge in prices.

He also added that primary materials price rise could be due to international producers increasing exporting prices with the import crisis during pandemic.

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