BP acting general manger Mahube Mpugwa said yesterday that normal fuel supplies will resume soon after Unitrans was appointed by the High Court as their interim distributor last Friday. Unitrans is supposed to start making deliveries this week. Mpugwa said BP lost a significant amount of business due to the folding up of Lobtrans. He told Businessweek that supplies are below normal. Some depots in areas such as Bobonong, Selebi-Phikwe and Francistown ran out of supplies for a few days. "At the moment, we are using Unitrans which was appointed by the High Court following the placement of Lobtrans under provisional liquidation. But on a long term basis, we are currently negotiating with many other local and regional companies including Unitrans itself to become our primary and secondary petroleum transporters.
"We have tried as much as possible to give priority to our commercial customers such as the mines. Although supplies to Debswana have decreased, their operations have not been affected as they usually keep a buffer stock of between 15,000-20,000 litres.
