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Al-Akhbar wrote:
In front of the oil installations in Zahrani yesterday, dozens of oil tankers lined up since the early morning, waiting their turn to supply them with gasoline, based on the promises that the owners received from the administration. But waiting so many hours didn’t help. The employees left at noon without distributing the gasoline that the ships had emptied into their tanks a few days ago. Some of the tanker drivers told Al-Akhbar that the Petroleum Facilities Administration had instructed the Zahrani Facilities Department not to deliver cargo from the ships for the benefit of the company’s owners until today, Wednesday, after that the Ministry of Energy and Water issued the fuel price list, which is expected to increase the price of gasoline by 400 pounds more. Consequently, the state sells at the new price ”.
On the other hand, sources from Zahrani Enterprises linked the delay in the delivery of gasoline yesterday from Zahrani to the meeting held between the Department of Facilities and Public Safety to establish a gasoline distribution mechanism to control the black market and its monopoly, raise its prices and smuggling it into Syria, similar to the mechanism that was established to control the diesel market last July. The gasoline disruption crisis witnessed by some stations in all Lebanese regions, according to a source at the facility, caused by “the delay in the supply of gasoline to distribution companies and station owners due to delayed disbursement of credits to companies by the Banque du Liban to pay for the ship’s cargo. “
In this context, the representative of the fuel distributors, Fadi Abu Chakra, confirmed to Al-Akhbar that “the delayed credits are being produced in the Banque du Liban for a reason.” Regarding the differentiation between one company and another in terms of the availability of gasoline or its interruption in its affiliated stations, Abu Shakra explained it as “spending funds on companies before others, because there are companies that are stronger than companies “. According to him, the criterion of strength is: “Some companies are associated with partners outside of Lebanon that provide liquidity in dollars to buy their fuel needs and supply their stations.
When will the crisis end? “Starting this morning, the Zahrani facilities will supply the market with two million liters of gasoline through the distribution companies,” Abu Shakra quoted the CEO of Petroleum, Auror Al-Feghali, as saying.
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