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FLASH WORLD SIX OIL COMPANIES TOYOTA WITHDRAWS
IN BULGARIA ARE 340 THOUSAND
THE CHINESE ACCUSED FOR PRICE HYBRID VEHICLES
EVERBRIGHT FIXING TOYOTA PRIUS
COMPLETELY TOOK
OVER THE AIRPORT IN
TIRANA
China Everbright Limited (CEL) in The Bulgarian commission for Toyota Motor Corporation pub-
the past month took over 100% protection of competition ac- lished that due to problems
of the shares of the international cused six oil companies that vio- with the breaks, they withdraw
airport in Tirana (TIA), “Mother lated the regulations for equal in total 340 thousand vehicles
Theresa”, after the Sales Agree- market competition by price of which mostly in Japan – 212
ment was signed in April this year. fixing in the retail market. It is thousand, 94 thousand in North
According to the company, the a matter of the companies Lu- America and 17 thousand in Eu-
airport in Tirana is one of the fast- koil Bulgaria, Shell Bulgaria, rope, and the rest is in Austra-
est growing airports in Europe, Eko Bulgaria which a branch of lia and the other parts of the
and the number of passengers the Green Hellenic Petroleum, world. Although they do not in-
of 600 thousand in 2005 has in- as well as Petrol and Nis Petrol dicate special details about the
creased to more than 2 million in where the Russian Gazprom decision, Toyota admitted that
2015. ”The takeover is a proactive Neft has the controlling stake. they received reports for car
corporate approach for identifica- According to the Bulgarian regu- accidents, injuries and deaths
tion of quality infrastructural in- lation, they agreed on the retail caused by a malfunction of the
vestments, which corresponds to prices of diesel and gasoline. The handbrake. According to the
the Chinese “one belt, one road” Bulgarian regulator started the company, the reason is the wire
initiative for strengthened com- investigation in the sector of re- cable of the handbrake which
munication between China and tail of fuels in February this year can be separated unexpectedly,
the world”,stated Chen Shuang, after the complaints of many which causes problems when the
the CEO of CEL. He thanked for citizens about the high prices vehicle is stopped. “If the driver
the excellent cooperation with of fuels and despite of the sharp leaves the car while it is working
the Albanian government and he fall in oil prices in the world and in parked position, while the
expressed his particular gratitude markers. All accused compa- gear (automatic) is not in position
to the management of the airport nies, at the beginning when the ‘parking’, a danger exists that the
where he expects further coop- investigation was published, de- vehicle might start moving and
eration. At the moment China is nied that they mutually agreed cause a collision”, it was indicat-
the second largest trade partner the prices, and now they have ed in the announcement of the
of Albania, and recently the Chi- 30 days to formally respond to company where it is added that
nese Prime Minister Li Keqiang the results of the investigation. the repair of the problem will be
and his Albanian colleague Edi In April the regulator conducted free for the users. The models
Rama obliged to increase the co- searches of the offices of OMV, of Toyota Prius with these prob-
operation between the two coun- Lukoil Bulgaria, Royal Dutch, lems have been manufactured in
tries, particularly in the field of Rompetrol and Hellenic Petro- the period between August last
infrastructure. CEL is the largest leum in Sofia. year and October this year.
investment fund in China special-
ized for external operations. Miroslav Sazdovski
66 November 2016
