Being Scotland’s busiest fruit market, it has continued to function despite substantial impairment.
The fire in the early hours of Thursday August 17 is thought to have been started by a fridge. Around 12 fire engines, four aerial appliances and 70 firefighters tackled the blaze. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said it managed to save a “very good proportion” of the fruit market.
The building, owned by Glasgow City Council’s arm’s length company, City Property, is one of Scotland’s biggest food exchanges, having opened in 1969. Despite the chaos of the fire, trading resumed the day after in the scorched site. According to eveningtimes.co.uk, it operates 24 hours a day supplying fresh fruit, vegetables, fish and flowers. More than 1,000 vehicles take goods in and out of the facility each day and it employs 400 full-time workers.
