Complete Disappearance of Smugglers from Oil Stations Western Algeria
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Launch of the new pricing for diesel and gasoline across the different oil stations in Tlemcen (western Algeria), changes the situation of different stations days before the entry of the new pricing into force, as most of the stations, especially those which are located in the large city, noticed a significant decline in the daily queues that were taking place in these stations .
Oil stations are exercising their functions professionally through providing oil for customers in a more orderly conditions, far from the previous mess, when they noticed an intensive presence of cars, making Tlemcen as the border area that lived a fuel crisis which was almost permanent.
Echorouk talked to some workers of these stations, and concluded that the primary reason behind the decline of the daily queues is due to the high prices of oil and gasoline. Which means that the smugglers are unable to deal with this new situation, which requires, according to some of those who know the border smuggling codes, the development of new agreements with other smugglers from the Kingdom of Morocco, which appears to be unrealisable at the present time in light of the volatile economic conditions in Morocco, as well as the development field that pushed the Moroccan authorities to freeze many of the development projects in the Eastern department.
All these indications show that the phenomenon of smuggling will notice a contraction in the future, if not it will subside, after it became a reality that the smugglers in the Kingdom of Morocco will not adventure with the new pricing that will be forced by their counterparts in the western borders. As all of these indicators manifested in the early days of lifting the oil pricing, as we did notice little “fights” and other types of used cars in fuel smuggling towards Morocco.