Tanzania: Why Traders Scramble for Fuel Marking

Dar es Salaam — A Wednesday statement in Parliament by Gairo lawmaker Ahmed Shabiby that Tanzanians were paying exorbitantly for fuel marking revealed just why the government needs a comprehensive investigation on how companies were scrambling for a pie of the lucrative petroleum business, available information shows.

Fuel marking is the introduction of a unique identifier (marker) in trace quantities into petroleum products at depots before distribution in the market.

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