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TIRANA, Sept. 11 – Albania’s competition watchdog has ordered a monopoly company managing the country’s largest fruit and vegetable wholesale market to revise its abusive warehouse rental prices that are sharply increasing consumer prices. The decision by Albania’s Competition Authority comes following a probe into Ekma Albania, the Albanian-owned company that has been running the Tirana agri-food wholesale market since 2015 under a deal with the municipality of Tirana. The watchdog says the company has been charging significantly higher rental rates compared to average prices at the local area just outside the capital city at the entry of the Tirana-Durres…