PPMC Move To End Fuel Scarcity

The Management of Pipe
lines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) has announced its determination to map out strategies geared towards permanently putting an end to the persistent fuel supply crises in the country.
Speaking to newsmen in Lagos on Monday, the PPMC Managing Director, Mrs Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue said that the company is working in close collaboration with some oil majors and other downstream firms to ensure that fuel queues disappear from filling stations in major cities of the country.
Nnamdi-Ogbue said that within the past few days over one thousand trucks were loaded and trucked out by oil majors and the PPMC, while about 400 intervention trucks are currently being used so as to service marketers and also ensure fuel supply in their filling stations.
The PPMC boss said that the company has sourced alternative fuel supply depots where trucks are loading fuel from Port Harcourt, Warri, Oghara, Calabar as alternative sources to loading fuel from Lagos depot.
She explained that the fuel scarcity would soon be a thing of the past within few days from now as all efforts are being made to ensure adequate fuel product available in the country.
She emphasised that the company management has set up monitoring team to make sure that the volumes of products brought in are actually discharged in most of the strategic or major filling stations across the country to bring the situation under normal control.
The PPMC boss added that over eight vessels with capacity of between 30 to 40 thousand metric tonnes would soon arrive the country to restore normalcy and ensure sufficiency of fuel supply in the country.