By Chelsey Dulaney
Several Italian airports have warned they are facing limited availability of jet fuel in the coming days.
Airports in Bologna, Treviso and Venice placed some restrictions on jet fuel through Thursday, according to official notices. Milan's Linate Airport also warned of potential limits. The notices said that a subsidiary of BP that supplies fuel at airports has limited supply of the fuel. Priority will be given to medical flights and flights longer than three hours.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has stranded shipments and sent jet-fuel prices soaring. Europe gets about 40% of its seaborne jet-fuel imports from the Gulf, according to Goldman Sachs.
Italian aviation officials have sought to play down the prospect of imminent shortages. Pierluigi Di Palma, the president of Italy's civil aviation authority, said "there are no problems with jet fuel here" in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. SAVE SpA, which operates the Venice, Treviso and Verona airports, said the supply issues are confined to one supplier, and it has others who provide fuel to planes.
BP didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
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