THE Petroleum Transporters Association of Zambia (TPAZ) has lamented that the transportation of fuel through the TAZAMA pipeline has negatively impacted their business. In an interview, Tuesday, TPAZ Secretary General Benson Tembo said when the initiative began, transporters had expected locals to be favoured by being given tenders to transport the commodity from Ndola, which had not happened. Tembo added that most transporters invested heavily in the subsector and are now indebted to banks. “In the first place, we didn’t expect the transportation of fuel through TAZAMA pipeline to have an impact on us. Because we knew that when the fuel comes to Ndola, because the pipeline runs from Dar es Salaam into Ndola, then we have all the activities...