31 Mar 2003

Marshall Islands petrol price rises

3:20 pm on 31 March 2003

The price of petrol in the Marshall Islands has gone up for the second time in the past two months.

The wholesale price charged to dealers in Majuro is higher than that charged at the pump in the neighboring islands of Pohnpei and Chuuk, in the Federated States of Micronesia, which are serviced by the same company.

Mobil says it is merely passing on the higher costs of petroleum products .