The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance has decided to establish three teams to inspect the import prices of oil products of Petrolimex, PetroVietnam Oil (PV Oil) and two other major distributors – Saigon Petro and Dong Thap Province-based Petimex.
Of them, Petrolimex, or the Vietnam National Petroleum Corporation, is the country’s largest fuel wholesaler.
The ministry says the inspection aims to help better manage the retail prices of oil products in the country.
The ministry adds it will ask Vietnam’s commercial services in regional oil supplying countries to provide it with update oil prices in those nations.
At a conference on fuel price management held in Hanoi Tuesday between the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance, Minister of Finance Vuong Dinh Hue said distributors were still making profits.
Meanwhile, major wholesalers claimed they were making losses.
