{"id":413802,"date":"2026-05-06T02:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413802\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T02:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T02:06:09","slug":"fuel-stocks-down-slightly-across-all-types","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/413802\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel stocks down slightly across all types"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4JR7QUQ_fuel01c_jpg.jpeg\" width=\"1050\" height=\"656\" alt=\"Composite of fuel pump and money.\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-captioned__information\">\n<p>Photo: RNZ \/ Unsplash\n<\/p>\n<p>Fuel stocks of all three types of fuel are down slightly &#8211; although the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment says that&#8217;s expected given the recent arrival of several shipments.<\/p>\n<p>As at 11.59pm Sunday evening there were 49.3 days&#8217; worth of petrol, 47.7 days of diesel, and 55.1 days of jet fuel either in the country or on its way.<\/p>\n<p>This is compared to 52.6 days of petrol, 52.7 days of diesel, and 58.7 days of jet fuel in the previous update.<\/p>\n<p>Three ships are within two days of arriving in New Zealand, while a further seven are on the water outside the Exclusive Economic Zone.<\/p>\n<p>MBIE said the stock movements reflected the usual shipping patterns and routine variations it expected to see even without the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said the supply chain was operating smoothly, and fuel was continuing to flow into the country as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Fuel importers had provided good confidence through confirmed orders to mid-June, with planned orders extending into July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: RNZ \/ Unsplash Fuel stocks of all three types of fuel are down slightly &#8211; although the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-413802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413802","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=413802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}