The Ōtautahi-based fuel distributor and storage firm picked up fuel allocated by importers at 11 ports nationwide for its approximately 10,000 primary industry customers nationwide. Chief executive Chris Gourley said its fuel allocation had been affected by “artificial demand”, driven by panic-buying and stockpiling of fuel as prices soared. “Farmers that are in arable or farmers that are harvesting or cutting grass, they need fuel,” he said. “If you don’t need fuel, don’t enter that market and try to stockpile fuel, because it just really does generate problems for everybody. “We’re really trying to all of us, the importers, the distributors, everybody’s trying to balance that fuel.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 27, 2026 15:38 UTC