The shortage of liquefied petroleum gas continues (LPG) in Arequipa. This situation began to be felt throughout the country since last August 17, due to scheduled maintenance at the company’s plant. pluspetrol located in Pisco (Ica) and delays of import vessels through the Panama Canal. However, this Sunday, August 27, La República verified the current situation in different parking lots in the White City and the problem continued. The taxi drivers who formed queues expressed their discomfort, since, in the absence of fuel, they cannot work.
“It causes discomfort because we have made a system change to stop using gasoline and use LPG and there isn’t at this time. We are queuing up at different distributors. As taxi drivers, we have to guard ourselves, we cannot go out to work,” one of the drivers who was part of a line of cars in the parking lot of the Chaskigas tap, located on La Paz avenue, in the city fence, told this outlet. .
great halls, a businessman in the faucet business in Arequipa, indicates that the plant pluspetrol is already serving. However, there is a high demand in the national market and the aforementioned distributor does not have sufficient capacity to distribute the hydrocarbon.
“It’s like, for example, in a tap which has two islands, only attends to the two islands. Let’s say it’s to load 10 tankers, but now they’re not just loading 10, they’re waiting for 100 tankers to load. So, they take time to distribute and supply. The plant did not make an investment to enlarge and meet this demand, that is, there was no expansion ”, he pointed out.
LPG price registers increase in taps in Arequipa. Photo: The Republic
Rooms hopes that this situation can improve in the following days, since pluspetrol supplies 70% of the national production of liquefied petroleum gas. The businessman indicated that in Callao there is a Z Gas plant that could help with the supply, but it would only be distributing to Lima and not to other regions.
More than 10,000 taxi drivers affected by the LPG fatality in Arequipa
Alexander Cornejo, representative of the Federation of Taxi Drivers in Arequipa, He announced that this situation harms at least 10,000 taxi drivers who make up his union in their daily work.
Source: Larepublica
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