Consumers in Kathmandu Valley will have to face a shortage of petroleum products in the coming days following the strike announcement by tanker operators.
A meeting of the Federation of Petroleum Products Transporters took the strike decision, demanding that NOC roll back its decision to make tankers older than 20 years redundant.
“NOC’s decision to add new tankers is impractical at a time when the existing tankers are not getting their turns in the queue often enough and we will not end our protest unless NOC rolls back the decision,” said Birendra Kumar Das, chairman of the federation.
Around 1,200 petroleum tankers are operating across the country.
The federation had staged a similar protest last month, putting forth the same demand. The protest was withdrawn following an agreement between the federation and NOC to form a committee to end the row within one month.
However, the tanker operators have resorted to an open-ended strike even before the deadline given to the committee has been crossed.
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