Motorists in Perth are celebrating fuel prices not seen in more than a decade, but the savings are not being passed on to those in regional Western Australia.
Chief executive Tony Chafer said it was extremely challenging to compete with prices in metropolitan areas, in part due to a significant drop in demand.
"Those vessels are quite expensive when they're sitting off at anchor, so that also has to be factored into the price of fuel as an additional cost. "The price drop we've just passed on, that's the most we can put on at the moment because we buy our fuel on a monthly Singapore average," he said.
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