Shares of Egyptian building firm, Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), will start trading on the Cairo stock market by Wednesday.

“We hope it will start tomorrow – if it doesn’t start tomorrow, it will be Wednesday at the latest,” Osama Bishai told Reuters at a ceremony that marked the listing of Orascom’s shares on NASDAQ Dubai last week. He also added that the delay was because of the physical movement of some documents between the two exchanges. The company already trades as OCI N.V. on Euronext Amsterdam.

According to a statement released by the company last month, the de-merged construction conglomerate will be called Orascom Construction and will be dually listed on NASDAQ Dubai and the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) as a global engineering and construction company. OCI N.V. will continue to be listed on the Euronext Amsterdam as a global producer of nitrogen fertilizers, methanol and other natural gas-based chemical products.

The shares started trading at $14.70 in Dubai on Monday, and has now risen to $14.75 in thin volume.

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