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|**Country E R Pricing policy and strategy**|**Fuel supply conditions**|
|---|---|
||costs imposed by the refinery,|
||government’s investigation has identified<br>having too many middlemen as another<br>factor, with the potential to reduce the<br>number from 13 to 5. The Zambia<br>Development Agency (ZDA) and an<br>international corporation of Angola in Apr<br>2012 signed a memorandum of<br>understanding for a multi-billion dollar|
||project to construct a petroleum pipeline to<br>run from Lobito, Angola to Lusaka.|
||**Shortages**: Fuel shortages are frequent,<br>primarily due to supply disruptions from|
||the refinery. Since Jul 2007, Tazama|
||Pipelines Ltd has been appointed by|
||government to be in charge of fuel imports.<br>The diesel shortage in Sep 2008 was<br>blamed on Tazama’s inability to import<br>diesel.|
||**Strategic reserves**: Zambia’s Sixth|
||National Development Plan aims to build<br>30 days of strategic reserves. Smuggling is<br>aproblem.|

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