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NOC resumes refueling facility at Tribhuvan Int'l Airport

Xinhua, February 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC), the state owned oil monopoly of Nepal, said that it has restarted providing fuel to international airlines at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu from Tuesday after a four-and-half-month-long halt.

After the fuel supply curtailed massively as a result of blockade in Nepal's southern border crossings, the NOC had stopped providing fuel to international carriers starting from Sept. 29, 2015.

With the lifting of blockade recently and improved supply of fuel, the NOC decided to resume refueling service to foreign carriers.

Sushil Bhattarai, acting deputy managing director of NOC said that they had informed the international airlines a week ago about the NOC's plan to resume refueling service from Tuesday.

Since the fuel crisis began, eastbound flights have been stopping in Dhaka, Bangladesh or Kolkata, India to refuel on their return trip; and westbound flights have been stopping for fuel in Lucknow, India. After the fuel crisis began, many international airlines had halted and reduced their flights to Kathmandu.

Besides restarting refueling service, the NOC management on Tuesday slashed the fuel of aviation turbine fuel for foreign carriers to 981 U.S. dollars per kilolitres, from 1,530 dollars per kilolitre.

"As oil price is decreasing globally, we also slashed jet fuel price," said Bhattarai. Enditem