A "shortage" alert was launched at the end of March, according to these concordant sources, due to the war in Ukraine, but also the resumption of flights to the Antilles and the Caribbean as health restrictions ease.
These supply difficulties, however, are "temporary", assured the prefecture of Guadeloupe, but they disrupt the management of fuel stocks in the two islands of the French West Indies.
According to an airport source, pilots are advised to "carry extra fuel on departure".
"For the regional, it's more complicated", some planes having to "make fuel supplements in other islands", still according to the same source, where difficulties in finding kerosene were also noted.
It is therefore the Société Anonyme de Raffinerie des Antilles, SARA, which is responsible for drawing on its stocks to supply fuel to planes in Guadeloupe and Martinique, while waiting for a boat loaded with kerosene to arrive and settle the situation. here on Tuesday.
The refinery, which receives crude oil, produces the fuel stocks the island needs: diesel, unleaded and kerosene for travel and fuel oil to produce the electricity that supplies Guadeloupe.
However, the risk of a shortage of fuel oil and therefore of electricity has not yet been proven, we say to SARA, where we are still wondering about long-term solutions to be found if this unprecedented situation was to last.
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