PETROPERU urges the municipality of Coronel Portillo to allow the circulation of tankers towards a sales plant

PETROPERÚ has requested the Provincial Municipality of Coronel Portillo, in Pucallpa, to comply with the decision of the Loreto Headquarters of INDECOPI to refrain from applying a municipal ordinance prohibiting the transit of heavy cargo along Centenario Avenue, where the Sales Plant is located which supplies fuel to the city.

On January 19 of this year, the commune published the Municipal Ordinance 002-2018-MPCP, which, among other indications, prohibits the circulation of vehicles of categories N3, O3 and O4, used to transport heavy cargo, on Centennial Avenue, which generated a direct impact on the PETROPERU activities in its Pucallpa Sales Plant.

Due to this impediment, PETROPERU filed a complaint with the Commission of the Loreto headquarters of INDECOPI to declare as an illegal or irrational bureaucratic barrier the prohibition and/or restriction contained in said municipal ordinance, since it affects the supply of fuel to the city. This entity ordered that the municipality refrain from provisionally applying this imposition, which has not been met despite direct efforts before the mayor Mr. Antonio Marino Panduro.

As a result, the municipality is contravening what was ordered by the administrative authority and does not adopt the communication and coordination measures with the Regional Office of the National Police of Peru, which is imposing infringement ballots on carriers that legitimately use this access route. to the Sales Plant.

Faced with this situation, PETROPERU asks the commune to comply with the provisions, otherwise it will initiate legal actions before INDECOPI, the General Comptroller of the Republic and the jurisdictional organ.

It should be noted that the impediment to free movement of PETROPERU trucks, coming from the Conchán Refinery and the Puerto de Terranova, affects the normal fuel supply to the city of Pucallpa and could impact the productive, commercial and private activities of the population.

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