{"id":285087,"date":"2019-08-21T04:11:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T08:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTmh0dHBzOi8vbmV3YnVzaW5lc3NldGhpb3BpYS5jb20vdHJhZGUvZXRoaW9waWEtaW1wb3J0cy13b3J0aC0yLTgtYmlsbGlvbi1mdWVsL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-21T11:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T15:33:11","slug":"ethiopia-fuel-imports-2-8-billion-2018-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/285087","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia spent about $2.8 billion on fuel imports in the 2018\/19 fiscal year, its state petroleum supplier said"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia imported 3.89 million metric tons of petroleum products worth 81.8 billion birr, about $2.82 billion, in the fiscal year that ended July 7, 2019, its state fuel supplier said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"size-large wp-image-838056\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fuel-station-kazanchis-addis-ababa-2022.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A fuel station in the Kazanchis area of Addis Ababa, photographed on December 1, 2022.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>A fuel station in the Kazanchis area of Addis Ababa, photographed on December 1, 2022. (ProtoplasmaKid \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0) [file photo]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alemayehu Tsegaye, communications head of the Ethiopian Petroleum Supply Enterprise, gave the figures to the state daily Addis Zemen, New Business Ethiopia reported on Aug. 21, 2019. The imports included kerosene, benzine and aviation fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel was bought from neighboring Sudan and from Kuwait, he said. Much of it, including 75 percent of the benzine, was purchased through direct government-to-government deals, and the rest through international tenders.<\/p>\n<p>After purchase, the enterprise supplies the products to 29 petroleum companies in Djibouti, which bring them into Ethiopia and handle retail sales, Alemayehu said.<\/p>\n<p>The country held a reserve of 369,000 metric tons of fuel in 13 depots, he said. The enterprise was building a new depot to double national storage capacity and planned another depot in Dire Dawa in the east.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s earnings from goods exports had declined over several years to $2.3 billion in the previous year, while its import bill for fuel and other items kept rising, New Business Ethiopia reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/trade\/ethiopia-imports-worth-2-8-billion-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Business Ethiopia (Aug. 21, 2019)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia imported 3.89 million metric tons of petroleum products worth 81.8 billion birr, about $2.82 billion, in the fiscal year that ended July 7, 2019, its state fuel supplier said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":838056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7911,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/fuel-station-kazanchis-addis-ababa-2022.jpg?fit=1280%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1cab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":838064,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285087\/revisions\/838064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}