AdBlue crisis averted but driver shortage poses new worry

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AdBlue crisis averted but driver shortage poses new worry
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The boss of Australia’s biggest supplier of the diesel fluid says extra production and a fall-off in demand as omicron hit have helped.

that in mid-December was threatening to bring Australia’s transport network to a halt has been largely remedied in the short term, but fresh worries have emerged over large-scale absenteeism among drivers of bulk transport trucks delivering new supplies.which supplies about half of Australia’s AdBlue needs, said on Wednesday the worst of the crisis had passed as extra production across the market had injected new supply as a time when demand was softening because of the omicron wave of COVID-19.

He said DGL employed about 500 people in Australia. Absenteeism because of COVID-19 was affecting all industries in different ways, with certain pockets more affected than others. He said DGL’s warehousing operations had absentee rates as high as 41 per cent. Mr Henry said DGL had been able to source extra AdBlue supplies from its New Zealand operations and had secured a large order of 7500 tonnes of urea from Indonesia, which is due to arrive late this month, further bolstering its production from Queensland-based AusBlue, which it acquired in October.Advertisement

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