The Association of Fuel Transportation Companies (ATC) reached an agreement with the government and they assure that there will be no fuel shortages at service stations during the weekend. The fuel distribution will work normally from Saturday.
“There will be no shortage. There was an agreement and the strike was lifted. Tomorrow (Saturday) we will work distributing normally,” said ATC spokesman Robert Batista.
With the agreement reached, it was defined that as of April 1, the 40% the value of the freight received by the companies that transport the fuel from the Ancap plant to the service stations, as reported by Subrayado (Channel 10) and confirmed The Observer.
Due to this increase –which had not occurred since 2016– the ATC union decided lift the strike this friday.
“Here, what increases is the company’s freight, which pays for fuel, the truck, repair and maintenance, and the driver’s salary,” said ATC spokesman Robert Batista, who added that “has an impact on driverswho earn partly a fixed-wage salary and partly for productivity”.
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This increase in 40% in freight value supposes the payment of around $0.20 more per liter of fuelalthough the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Mining does not specify whether this cost will be added to the final price charged to users at service stations.
that will be a The decision will be made by the Executive Branch “based on the PPI (Price Parity of Imports) and the Ancap report,” said the Undersecretary of Industry Walter Verri.
“The Ursea (Regulatory Unit of Energy and Water Services) closes its measurement of the PPI on (Saturday) 25, from there it will take a few days to prepare the report and the Executive Power will determine the value of the fuel,” said Verri, who added “If there is an incidence, it is very low.”
