Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
August 5, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government on Friday confirmed that authorities in Port Sudan have refused to allow an oil shipment to leave because of unpaid fees.
“Sudan has blocked the ship in Port Sudan, because the government of South Sudan didn’t accept the fees for using the pipeline, the refinery and the port,” foreign ministry spokesman Al-Obaid Marawih told Agence France Presse (AFP).
Garang Deng, South Sudan’s oil minister, said yesterday that the oil tanker contained 600,000 barrels and warned that the holdup could lead to penalties assessed on Juba because of late delivery to buyer whose identity was not revealed.
“We have failed to reach solutions with the government of Sudan that would guarantee that the ship would depart at the specified time,” Deng said.
“I have contacted the finance and energy ministers of the Northern government but they refused to talk about it on the pretext that they have meetings” he added.
But today another South Sudan official downplayed the existence of political motivations behind the row. The first oil shipment from South Sudan containing 1 million barrels was made in July out of Port Sudan without any issues.
“We don’t interpret this as a rejection by Khartoum. I do not think this is politically motivated,” David Gubek, undersecretary at the ministry of energy and mining in Juba told Reuters.
“There are certain procedures at the port that have to be followed. We will wait for clarification tomorrow” Gubek added.
The oil-rich nation became an independent state last month after its citizens voted almost unanimously in favor of secession from the Arab-Muslim dominated north. But the latter contains the pipelines that transports the oil from the landlocked South to Port Sudan.
Both sides are still negotiating the transit fees to be assessed per barrel for usage of the pipelines. The figures proposed by Khartoum initially were called “daylight robbery” by Juba.
South Sudan officials have threatened to seek other venues to export their oil and rejected any revenue sharing similar to the one that was in place prior to July 9th.
(ST)
dakin
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Yep one devil strangling the other. What a good news to southeners!
Storing the nuer blood dolars in cofins and using yor trash dinak pound to build pothol rods and timbar bridges is monkery
The vampire leader salvator who suck the nuer blood in cofins is a very big joke here in nasir.
Cofin to the one ghost dinak vampire.
Vampire blood sucking pipes of khalif taban and simon rat must be turned off too immediately!
Cofins to all vampires and their barking clown dog ghost okuk aka dinak shit in the cofin.
Cofin to the one dinak traitor, haf arab haf dinak haf muslim haf christian haf haf lost boy pieny makuol son of the biges traitor in africa story. Who deserve to be slaughtered for shaming black south sudan and than manufacture a pair of combat boots for the one Gatdet. God bles the them
God cursed dinak vampire community as revealed on this verse
‘ sons of kuol deng you are ander curse, yor evils heart wil they one consum you for during the TIME God was dividing them land yo rebel and becam satans vampire ghost heart!’
Cofin to the one nomad panyang who want to poison Gatdet in Juba
kwel mark
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Last kick of dying horse,coffins,coffins you will sing until you keep quiet ..Being a bystander will not help you rather than working for your country than preaching nonsense on the the site ..Grow up .Grow up .
dakin
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
ahmed Kwek,
Bulshit! It you the one demon malualdit ghost aka monky okuk aka dinak dom shit who bark in salvatok cofin.
Hahaha what a big jok hre in nasir.
Dn’t panic wen yor cursed vampire is slaped.
Cofins to you as revealed in this holy verse
‘when they vampires lock them money cofins be cool my people for I the one wil doom them in thos very cofins of they evil vampires.’
nasir comunity dn’t give a monky about a doom shit salvatok cofin
SSLA supporter
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
This is direct implication of the hostile and reckless policies of Mr. Pagan Amum the secretary general of SPLM syndicate, towards the government of northern sudan. Pagan is not the right person to be appointed as
Minister of peace and CPA implementation simply because he is too aggressive to debate his points with northern Sudanese without becoming aggressive, now, everybody will pay for his mess!
So, that is what you get when handling suchs sensitive issues like thosecollectively known as post referendum issues!! What do you expect to be the out come of Pagan Amum’s hostile behavior towards northern sudan? Pay the fee or carry it to Kenya for export there, port sudan doesn’t belong to us anymore, we have to hire or else we have no money to be embezzled by you Pagan Amum and your SPLM syndicate, our people of southern sudan will never be affected by that sanction because they are not benefiting from the oil revenue anyway!?
Josh
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
let tribalism solve the issue quick. Dinka needs to learnt lesson from now. Kenya wont ship for free, Ethiopia wont ship for free, anywhere you go is fire because doesnt like you. look at you, place mirror on the centre of your mad wall and look at you dark face. no one likes you. you have no near by borders, you just there waiting for your last time to go to hell. Had I to born Dinka I would ve quit that tribe to hell.
pay shit to ship quick or accept fine.
DeltaBravo
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
To JOSH
You if you think it is about colour let me make it clear to you and your Master Bashir. Along the border there are dark skin that are not racist like your master and his Slave like you. what is going on here is jealousy. People are suffering around the Copuntry North and South. They need to stop all this economic war,it not going to help. We got FUR in the desert suffering, NUBIAN are being displace,we got Southerners coming from Khartom they need food and shelter. this is disaster they need to think of people on both side rather then. their political agenda.
man koryom
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Get your ass back to school or you will be darker forever. No one need to be call monkey. When I read comments like yours, it made me wonder why we even have Nuer in South Sudan. They are supposed to be Somalian or those who resist to learn. Your Dr. Nyagat is a big blood sucker because he was the one with his White chick who took oil to the North. He create instability in Nuer land and his Angelina is doing the same thing now. Angelina is a dishwasher at Dr. Nyagat house and Dr. Nyagat had brough in another White chick to destabilized the south again. Your uncle Gatdet is a big prostitutes who will die between Nuer and Arabs.
Nuer must learn or else they will finish themselves
If you still believe in Ngudeng words, then he once said that one tribe will finish. Now Nuer should start getting worries if I were them.
Agutran
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Let South Sudan start the building of the railroad to Mombasa right away, our military equipements comes through Kenya, we never had issues of fee with Kenya because they charge reasonably.
Our import and export will be coming and going through the rail and that will be a combo of all in one.
Who can beat that deal?
With the North Sudan greed for more they, will lose it all! That’s what happen when you’re gambling, when you double down for more, you lose it all.
South Sudan pay military transit fee, why not crude oil transit fee as well?
Alier42
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
To SSLA Supporter If you want to apoint your mother or father to take over from the right person in the goverment of Ross, Amum.why you do people gave up your rebellion two days ago and you are looking for such a higher position in the goverment of Ross,your childish characters as Nuer community are well known to every in the Republic of southern sudan.
mohammed ali
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Contrarly to what ST says , the spoke person said ” there is nothing connected to the issue of oil division or fees as the negotiation is still going. The GOSS paid for the previous shipment but they faild to pay for this shipment!This has nothing to do with the pipeline as the negotiation is still going on regardig the division of the oil revenues!
They paid previous time but they did not pay this time! Funny! Seems the SPLA run out of funds!
This not a political issue, the dicision is with the port authority!!!
Agutran
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
I don’t think anyone will try to play hardball with the South Sudan, whoever try it will lose big time.
These are not the Southerners of the 1950s, 60s,etc, we’re the next generation that will not be hoodwinked.
SSLA supporter
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
Alier42
Your mother or father are to be appointed in the place of that drunkard called Panan Amum, I am sorry to reply this way but a dumb like you who comments stupidly like this needs to be treated this way.
Sundayw
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
And the economic war begins! Mazel tov
Alier42
Sudan confirms holding oil shipment over unpaid fees
To SSLA supporter
.IF you do not want your mother to take oath of the office from a veteran Amum ,then you need not to talk about him in public ,otherwise i can not abuse the foolish.