Kebba Ansu Manneh
The stability of petroleum prices and its availability in Gambian, according to Hassib Massry, Managing Director of Castle Oil Limited, remains priority and concern.
Castle managing director disclosed this during a visit of the Malian National Petroleum delegates to Castle Oil Limited Petroleum Storage Depot at Mandinary Village – led by officials of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) and Gambia Revenue Authority (GRA), on Wednesday.
“Our desire is to bring stability in the price of petroleum and make sure that the product is always available at The Gambian market. We want to ensure that both locals and our clients from Mali and Guinea Bissau have comfort in getting petroleum at affordable prices,” Hassib Massry disclosed.
According to him, the desire to making petroleum available and accessible for the teeming number of customers is what has motivated the company to lure for expansion, adding that once the company’s storage facility comes to completion many fuelling stations will open across the country in a bid to make live easy for both Gambians, Bissau Guineans and Malians customers.
“Though our target is to expand more and more, we have no intention to engage in competition.
All we want to engage in is to make sure that the price of petroleum is stable, affordable and available to our customers,” Castle Oil Limited boss noted.
He went on saying they want prices of petroleum to be reasonable and accessible to all their customers irrespective of where they come from.
For his part, Issa Kondo, head of National Petroleum Office (ONAP) of Mali who led the visiting Malian delegation to The Gambia expressed delight and appreciation. He said with increase capacity Gambian businesses will have the opportunity to export more petroleum products to Mali.
According to him, his office will further strengthen its efforts to breaking down some of the trade barriers and restrictions that impede the progress of business across the region. He assured that once some of the trade barriers and restrictions are lifted more gain will be recorded by businesses in the sub region.