LONG QUEUES OF TANKERS AT TAZAMA EXPLAINED
By NOEL IYOMBWA
A TRAFFIC jam of fuel tankers at TAZAMA in Lusaka’s heavy industrial area is nothing unusual, but the oil depot is overwhelmed after restoring the faulty offloading pipes, Oil Marketing Companies Association of Zambia (OMCAZ) president Dr Kafula Mubanga has said.
Dr Mubanga said that there was nothing serious about the traffic jam, as the tanker trucks were offloading fuel but that the offload bay was overwhelmed with many trucks waiting to offload.
He said that the tanker trucks had been offloading the commodity despite the long queue and that the situation would come back to normal.
“It is nothing serious, it is just that TAZAMA is overwhelmed with the many tanker trucks that want to offload fuel, otherwise it is nothing serious,” he said.
Dr Mubanga explained that the long queue of fuel tanker trucks along Buyan- tashi Road was as a result of a pipe fault at TAZAMA offloading bay.
Last week a faulty pipe at TAZAMA caused a traffic jam of fuel tankers in Lusaka’s heavy industrial area.
The problem had been normalised and that trucks had started off loading fuel.
However, a check showed several fuel tankers are still stuck along Buyantashi, Mungwi and adjacent roads in the industrial area.
Several tanker trucks mainly foreign have for past days been parked along Buyantashi and nearby roads waiting to offload fuel at TAZAMA fuel depot, causing traffic congestion in the area.
