Post by scumbuster on May 31, 2021 8:20:16 GMT -5
93% of Venezuela’s Industrial Sector Runs Out of Diesel
CARACAS – A survey on the impact of diesel shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic carried out by the Venezuelan Confederation of Industrialists (Conindustria), the trade union of the industrial sector of Venezuela, showed on Tuesday afternoon that 93% of the companies that make up the sector have either run out of diesel already or only have reserves likely to last just for a couple of weeks.
The survey, which makes up 60% of the country’s sectoral chambers and 40% of regional chambers, also showed that all these companies had to turn to alternative ways to get the highly coveted fuel at unregulated prices on the black market.
Adan Celis, president of Conindustria, called the situation “dramatic” as he claimed that the country once boasted inventories that lasted over two months years ago.
Celis also pointed out that companies registered an average of 14 workdays a month between February and April of this year, representing 74% of workdays due to the intermittent schemes increasingly disrupting business continuity.
As for the main services that were disrupted during this period, 56% of the industrialists surveyed responded that they have suffered the brunt of diesel shortages every day, while 19% reported daily outages affecting all production stages.
Celis laid stress on the need of privatizing the oil industry to recover production and on the urgency that the government grants producers the necessary permits to import all the fuel they require to continue operating while the fuel supply issue is resolved.
Diesel is key to the transport of industrial goods from production lines to consumption zones and the transport of many of the raw materials received by the industry from production centers.
www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2502208&CategoryId=10717
CARACAS – A survey on the impact of diesel shortages amid the COVID-19 pandemic carried out by the Venezuelan Confederation of Industrialists (Conindustria), the trade union of the industrial sector of Venezuela, showed on Tuesday afternoon that 93% of the companies that make up the sector have either run out of diesel already or only have reserves likely to last just for a couple of weeks.
The survey, which makes up 60% of the country’s sectoral chambers and 40% of regional chambers, also showed that all these companies had to turn to alternative ways to get the highly coveted fuel at unregulated prices on the black market.
Adan Celis, president of Conindustria, called the situation “dramatic” as he claimed that the country once boasted inventories that lasted over two months years ago.
Celis also pointed out that companies registered an average of 14 workdays a month between February and April of this year, representing 74% of workdays due to the intermittent schemes increasingly disrupting business continuity.
As for the main services that were disrupted during this period, 56% of the industrialists surveyed responded that they have suffered the brunt of diesel shortages every day, while 19% reported daily outages affecting all production stages.
Celis laid stress on the need of privatizing the oil industry to recover production and on the urgency that the government grants producers the necessary permits to import all the fuel they require to continue operating while the fuel supply issue is resolved.
Diesel is key to the transport of industrial goods from production lines to consumption zones and the transport of many of the raw materials received by the industry from production centers.
www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2502208&CategoryId=10717