Fils-Aimé Ignace Saint-Fleur, Director General of the Office of Monetization of Development Assistance Programs (BMPAD) confirmed the arrival yesterday Sunday, September 1 in the country of a cargo of 258,000 barrels of oil (kerosene, diesel and gasoline), part of which, 53,000 barrels, arrived Saturday.

While the country faces a fuel shortage or an organized scarcity https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-28623-haiti-flash-fuel-fuel-or-rarest-organized.html; For more than a week, several gas stations in the Capital are closed because of fuel lack, others besieged by endless queues of automobiles and a large amount of motorcycle taxi in search of the precious liquid, whose price continues to increase and who sold them after hours of waiting in limited quantities... Mr. Saint-Fleur specifies that the petroleum products that are already at the terminal of Thor, aboard the ship EVIE -PG, are divided into 40,000 barrels of diesel, 12,000 of gasoline and about 1,000 barrels of kerosene; As for Sunday's arrival, the ARTEMIS vessel will contain 205,000 barrels of petroleum products destined for Haiti: 100,000 barrels of diesel, 70,000 barrels of gasoline and 35,000 barrels of kerosene.

Also Fils-Aimé Ignace Saint-Fleur invites the population to calm and denying some rarity on the local market, according to him it was rather a rationing at the gas stations.

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