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Petrol price hikes also trouble petrol station owners The escalating petrol price is equally bad news for motorists as it is for petrol station owners. According to a consultant, a petrol retailer’s profit is fixed for every rand of fuel sold, regardless of the fuel price. “Fuel price increases therefore do not mean that your local fuel retailer makes more money – potentially the opposite. Politicians import luxury vehicles without paying duty Those Mozambican political parties that used customs exemptions to import luxury vehicles, but then sold them on to other people who have nothing to do with their political activities, will have to pay the customs duties owing, declared Finance Minister Manuel Chang, interviewed in the independent daily O Pais, reports news agency, AIM. Stowaway found dead on Cape Town-London flight A suspected stowaway has been found dead in the landing gear bay of a British Airways flight that landed at Heathrow from Cape Town last week, reports the UK’s The Independent. China moves to stop zero freight rates Chinese ship operators may not offer zero or negative freight rates in order to compete for business, the Ministry of Transport said. It’s a move to regulate the market and prevent vicious price competition amid the global economic downturn, reports the Global Times. Airline to discontinue Dar flights Precision Air will discontinue its flights from Johannesburg to Dar es Salaam, effective September 17.