petroleum products
Depot owners and major fuel marketers: The unfair bashing of downstream sector critical stakeholders
9 Sep
As the nation grapples with gasoline (a.k.a petrol) supply and distribution hiccups and its attendant strain on economic activities, the expected role(s) of each of the stakeholders in the supply and distribution value chain has come to the fore for discourse and dissection once again. This has become even more so given the recent announcement…
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