Gauteng, which accounts for 60% of South Africa’s fuel consumption, would be short of 5-billion litres of fuel in 2010, Sipho Maseko, chief operating officer and chief executive designate of BP Africa, has said.
Business Report said on Friday that the province did not have sufficient capacity to move imported product from the coast and this would put the soccer World Cup and economic growth at risk.
Maseko said that since 2005, demand had exceeded production capacity and South Africa had been a net importer of refined fuel since 2006.
”It is going to get worse,” he said at the mid-year conference of the South African Chamber of Business.
Maseko said the Durban port handled four tankers a week offloading refined fuel, which was already stretching its capacity. – Sapa