TS and K-Petro join forces to improve oil transport vehicle safety and crack down on illegal distribution

[Financial News] Information on hazardous-material transport vehicles carrying oil and on petroleum product distribution will be combined and used to respond to accidents and crack down on illegal distribution.
According to the Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) on the 4th, its president, Yong-Sik Jung, and Choi Chun-sik, president of the Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority (K-Petro), signed the previous day at the petroleum authority an MOU on strengthening safety management for hazardous-material transport vehicles and efforts to eliminate illegal distribution of petroleum products.
The two agencies plan to make transport safer and the distribution market more transparent through this cooperation. They expect the shared information to help strengthen responses when hazardous materials leak from transport vehicles or traffic accidents occur, as well as to detect warning signs in advance and conduct on-site inspections.
Illegal distribution of petroleum products is often detected at the transport stage. From January to March this year, South Gyeongsang Province’s Special Judicial Police for Public Welfare conducted a joint crackdown with the Korea Petroleum Quality & Distribution Authority’s Busan-Ulsan-Gyeongnam Headquarters, catching six petroleum retailers that had supplied fake fuel to construction sites. After several stakeouts, the retailers were caught using mobile sales vehicles to supply dump trucks and excavators with fake fuel made by mixing diesel and kerosene. Combining transport vehicles’ location and travel data with petroleum distribution information could help trace illegal supply routes like these.
TS President Yong-Sik Jung said, “This agreement will be an important opportunity not only to strengthen safety management for hazardous-material transport but also to reinforce the management system for the distribution of petroleum products.” He added, “We will continue to work with various agencies involved in hazardous-material transport to build a safe mobility environment where the public can feel at ease.”

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