Greek tanker docks with Wilmer Ruperti's emergency fuel cargo

Venezuelan tycoon Wilmer Ruperti has succeeded in bringing in an emergency fuel cargo to help the country through a petrol shortage.

Sources familiar with the matter told Reuters that a Greek tanker has docked at the El Palito refinery with 150,000 barrels of gasoline.

The cargo was bought by Ruperti's Maroil Trading, they said. Ruperti is not commenting.

The fuel will only partly alleviate the shortage in the country, where domestic refining has almost completely collapsed, while US sanctions against the regime of president Nicolas Maduro have made imports more difficult.