Aden is experiencing fuel crisis for 4th consecutive day

ADEN, Jan. 19 (YPA) – Yemen’s southern province of Aden has been witnessing a worsening fuel crisis, for the fourth consecutive day, after the fuel stations closed due to a labor strike that led to the unavailability of oil products.

Since last Friday, all governmental and private fuel stations have shutdown, for the first time since the return of the Saudi-backed “Hadi’s government” to Aden on December 30th.

“The current fuel crisis resulted from a strike carried out by workers of the Aden Refineries Company,” Turkish “Anadolu” agency quoted the financial director of the petroleum company’s branch in Aden Mona Manea as saying.

Mona added, “We have sufficient fuel stocks in the oil company – Aden branch, but the refinery workers’ strike prevented us from supplying fuel to the local market.”

An official in the Aden Refineries Company attributed the reason for the workers’ strike to the failure to receive their annual bonuses amounting to more than one billion Yemeni riyals per month ($ 1.3 million), for more than 3,500 employees.

The official, who preferred not to be named, explained in press statements that “despite repeated demands to the government to find solutions to workers’ delayed dues a year ago, the problem still remains.”

The disappearance of oil derivatives from the market led to an increase in the sales of the black market for fuel in Aden, as the price of a 20-liter fuel gallon reached 12,000 riyals (about $ 15), while its price before closing was $ 7 dollars.

YPA