Algerian Exporters Complain Of Fuel High Prices On The Mauritanian Border
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A few days after the opening of the land border crossing between Algeria and Mauritania to export Algerian products to this neighboring country, a large number of exporters were shocked by the high prices of transport through the land crossing, which was attributed by the actors in this context to the high price of fuel, especially diesel, as fuel supply reached DZD 200 in the stations, which is a stumbling the movement of Algerian goods, forcing the exporters to send a correspondence to the Commerce Minister and the Trade Director in Tindouf, southern Algeria, to solve this problem.
According to the text of the correspondence, which copy was received by Echorouk on Friday, these exporters have faced, since the opening of the land crossing, many problems in the practice of commercial activity, which is the export of some Algerian products to the State of Mauritania through the land crossing in Tindouf (southern Algeria), forcing many exporters to resort to the shipping route, which is more expensive and to concede to the land crossing which is no longer useful.
“Exporters received several requests for transportation through the land crossing and many offers as well. However, after examining them, it was found that the price of transporting goods from Algerian cities to Mauritania is very expensive, resulting in high prices of exported products and loss of real competitiveness in the markets”.
According to the same sources, the price of diesel fuel through 5 stations ranges from DZD 112.5 to 193.65, at a distance between 470 and 1600 km, and this is about the stations of Bir Maghrin, Zouirat, Itar, Akjojt and Nouakchott.
Exporters asked the Ministry of Commerce to intervene urgently within the framework of its legal powers to include this request in their priorities and study it with the concerned authorities in order to authorize the trucks that were loaded with the goods towards Mauritania and take additional quantities of diesel to avoid resorting to the service stations on the road and to assist them in the use of road transport and with affordable prices.
Interior Minister, Noureddine Badoui, and his Mauritanian counterpart, Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, opened, last August, the first land crossing between Algeria and Mauritania since their independence, aiming at developing the economy and trade.
Algeria news agency APS reported that the border crossing costed Algeria DZD 150 million, indicating that it consists of 49 units of ready-made construction, 46 offices for all entry and exit procedures between Algeria and Mauritania, in addition to 4 parking spaces and facilities for rest.
