Petrol stations limit supplies to avert smuggling at the borders

A number of governors have instructed the petrol-stations’ owners to fasten the supply procedures in order to curb the smuggling phenomenon, causing disturbances and shortages in various parts of the country.

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• Reliable sources have revealed to Echourouk that the governors of the provinces located in the eastern and western borders with Libya, Morocco and Tunisia, like Tlemcen and Tebessa have ordered the petrol stations’ owners to limit the quantity of engine oils and petrol to 40 litres per vehicle, in order to avert smuggling.

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• This fructuous trafficking has become the business of many truck owners that fill their gas tanks with this product and cross the borders toward the neighboring countries to sell it there.

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• Figures released by the national gendarmerie and customs services of the province of Tlemcen have revealed that some 1.5 million litres of fuel including 653184 litres of oil and 404943 litres of gasoline were seized over the year 2011.

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• This huge quantity represents the double of that seized over the years 2008 and 2010.

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• The gendarmerie officer has indicated that nearly 300 cars and 3 trucks seized and put into the car ponds in addition to 350 donkeys used for smuggling fuel and engine oils to the neighboring countries.

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