The Malawi government has stated that by this time next year, it shall have completed construction of three fuel silos one in each of the three regions. All three silos will have capacity to hold 60 million litres of fuel reserves.

This development comes as an attempt to prevent problems of fuel shortages in country. Just less three years ago Malawians faced with this same problem whereby people were forced to stand in long queues and even overnight just to acquire fuel.

Spokesperson for the ministry of finance, Nations Msowoya said in a press release that the reserves would be adequate to service the country’s fuel needs for two months when supply is disrupted.

He further said the government will construct 10 million litres in the North, 25 million litres in the central and another 25 million litres in the south which add up to 60 million litres.

“The 60 million reserves will help Malawi when there is a fuel crisis on the global scene as it will store fuel compared to the past when fuel was only stored for less than three weeks.”

“The fuel reserves will be able to store fuel for about 60 days. In the past we only had few fuel storage facilities which could store fuel for less than three weeks.”

“The construction team is planning on finalizing the project early next year like April or May, but so far half of the project is done,” said Msowoya.

The finance spokesperson said the construction has delayed because of a few setbacks that were met during the process like delay in shipping a large number of goods from abroad and that the government of India, a member of the Bricks is responsible for funding the project.