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OMCs fail to avoid demurrage cost

OMCs fail to avoid demurrage cost

A Parliamentary Standing committee strongly felt that the huge demurrage cost of about Rs 665 crore incurred by state-run oil marketing companies (OMCs) between 2009 and 2012 was avoidable and not due to uncontrollable factors. Owing to their failure to have requisite infrastructure, the three OMCs – IOC, HPC and BPCL – paid Rs 665 crore in this period to domestic ports, the com