{"id":391509,"date":"2026-04-22T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391509\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T03:54:10","slug":"latest-fuel-numbers-dip-in-stock-levels-normal-says-mbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/391509\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest fuel numbers: Dip in stock levels normal, says MBIE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere is also a ship currently loading diesel in Singapore, and this will be on the way to New Zealand shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further declines in fuel stock levels were expected over the coming weeks, MBIE said, but fuel tankers were on the way to New Zealand to replenish them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is normal and is how fuel companies manage their daily business, with fuel distributed around the country and then replenished by incoming imports,\u201d MBIE said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFuel tanks are not kept at 100% capacity all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s fuel prices have been affected by the conflict in the Middle East<\/a> that started after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.<\/p>\n

Iran<\/a> retaliated with its own strikes and essentially closed the Strait of Hormuz, a global and strategic shipping route.<\/p>\n

This has added pressure to the fuel market globally, with some New Zealanders reportedly struggling with their own fuel costs. <\/p>\n

Julia Gabel is a Wellington-based political reporter. She joined the Herald in 2020 and has most recently focused on data journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThere is also a ship currently loading diesel in Singapore, and this will be on the way to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[138,30276,28157,1122,5346,2678,305,78,374,685,700,5983,60620,83832,28874,111,43,139,12909,3591,69,312,7811,781,1961,1803,2963],"class_list":{"0":"post-391509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-dip","10":"tag-dropped","11":"tag-employment","12":"tag-expected","13":"tag-fuel","14":"tag-have","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-innovation","17":"tag-last","18":"tag-latest","19":"tag-levels","20":"tag-maintains","21":"tag-mbie","22":"tag-ministry","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-newzealand","26":"tag-normal","27":"tag-numbers","28":"tag-nz","29":"tag-says","30":"tag-since","31":"tag-stock","32":"tag-this","33":"tag-update","34":"tag-zealands"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}