VOL. XXXIII

NO.18

5-FEBRUARY-1990

Egypt

Sumed Pipeline Tolls Raised to $2.55/Ton

Mr. Ibrahim Hamza, the Chairman of the Arab Petroleum Pipelines Company,which owns the Sumed (Suez-Mediterranean) crude oil transit pipeline, hasannounced an increase in tolls on oil put through the line to $2.55 a ton forthe year 1990. This is apparently an average figure, as he did not give the newminimum and maximum tolls. According to Sumed officials in Alexandria, the oldtolls for crude oil moving through the...