The 125 tankers that will enter the country with gasoline are only enough for half a day, analyst estimates and requests release to import

The state-owned YPFB announced on Monday the download of “aggressive volumes” of fuels at its port terminal in Arica (Chile), of which 125 tankers loaded with gasoline They would enter the country this Tuesday.

The analyst and former Minister of Hydrocarbons Alvaro Rios calculated that the volumes transported by the tankers They are only enough for half a day, taking into account that the country needs at least 300 daily tankers of the product and another slightly higher amount of diesel.

“Per day to supply gasoline and diesel, 300 tankers are needed per day. If there are 150 (tanks), “They are enough for half a day for the entire country,” mentioned, while explaining that the country consumes 82 thousand barrels of gasoline and diesel per day, that is, about 13 million liters. A tanker has the capacity to transport between 30 and 40 thousand liters.

The manager of Derived and Industrialized Products of YPFB, Gabriela Delgadillo, reported yesterday that over the weekend, a ship discharged a volume of 40 million liters in Arica of gasoline and yesterday another 40 million liters of the same fuel were unloaded.

“The case of gasoline since yesterday (Sunday) already began to leave from the Sica Sica terminal (Arica), we are dispatching more than 125 tankers with gasoline”Delgadillo reported on Monday on Bolivia TV.

“We are carrying out quite aggressive import volumes that will allow us to normalize and regularize deliveries at service stations until, during the course of this week, the lines, both for gasoline and diesel, can disappear completely“added the official.

For Álvaro Ríos, these announcements will not solve the fuel shortage, until the Government has free importation and marketing of gasoline, diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).

“It has to be done at once and in this I believe that Santa Cruz must take a strong position, because not having diesel, without a doubt, is going to kill the productive apparatus, apart from the fact that it is killing other activities,” he asserted.

The former minister considered that during the visit of President Luis Arce to Santa Cruz, on Friday, productive sectors must achieve a legal standard that allows the free import and marketing of fuels under agile technical standards, which allow the market to alleviate the deep energy crisis that “we could see it coming 10 years ago.”

At the same time, he asserted: “Ideology cannot be tied to the hunger of the people,” in reference to the politics of state control over the entire hydrocarbon chain and the economy in general.

“The government has to change its ideology because The Bolivian economic model does not work, it does not work and this is a first step. That is why I ask, please, the government, the YPFB, the ANH to let private companies can import freely and freely market gasoline, diesel and LPG so that it can somewhat alleviate this shortage situation that is destroying the country’s economy,” he added.