{"id":39020,"date":"2023-01-20T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices"},"modified":"2023-01-20T22:48:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:48:04","slug":"mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices","title":{"rendered":"Mera maintains fuel pump prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has maintained the fuel pump prices although the prices were supposed to go up. According to the Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM), diesel qualifies for price revision since the change in the landed cost is above the \u00b15% band. On the other hand, petrol and kerosene do not qualify since the change in landed costs are within the \u00b15% band.<\/p>\n<p>A statement signed by Mera Board Chairperson Reckford Kampanje, says the Board has resolved to maintain pump prices in the month of November, 2022 as implemented on September 15, 2022 until the next review in December 2022 when the projected importation losses shall be assessed and considered for recovery. However, Consumers Association of Malawi ( Cama) Executive Director John Kapito says what Mera has done is not economically sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has maintained the fuel pump prices although the prices were supposed to go up. According to the Automatic Pricing Mechanism (APM), diesel qualifies for price revision since the change in the landed cost is above the \u00b15% band. On the other hand, petrol and kerosene do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":39019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[233,371,234],"class_list":["post-39020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-malawi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mera maintains fuel pump prices - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has maintained the fuel pump prices although the prices were supposed to go up ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mera maintains fuel pump prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (Mera) has maintained the fuel pump prices although the prices were supposed to go up ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-01-20T22:21:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-01-20T22:48:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674240704.69.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mera maintains fuel pump prices\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-01-20T22:21:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-01-20T22:48:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\"},\"wordCount\":143,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2023\/01\/postQueueImg_1674240704.69.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"Malawi\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/mera-maintains-fuel-pump-prices\",\"name\":\"Mera maintains fuel pump prices - 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