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Fuel supplies set to ease crisis

    JOHANNESBURG

    Five ships carrying more than 118,900 mt of fuel from the International Petroleum Group (IPG) in Kuwait are expected to dock at the Mozambican port of Beira in the next three weeks, easing fuel shortages which had worsened in the past two weeks, Zimbabwe’s leading financial newspaper ‘The Financial Gazette’ said Thursday.

    The report said that one of the ships was prevented from berthing in Beira last week because another vessel had run aground, obstructing traffic.

    Meanwhile, a Mobil Oil spokeswoman in Zimbabwe said on Thursday that whilst the general supply situation had improved in the last four weeks, the oil industry was still working with limited stocks and was dependent on a daily supply. “Logistics constraints have delayed fuel imports and consequently the fuel supply situation has been difficult over the past two weeks,” she said.

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