Many petrol stations have seen prices rise on Wednesday, the first day of a truckers' strike, which will affect deliveries of fuel to filling stations.
Some filling stations have managed to stock up in advance of the strike, but according to retailers prices will not be affected.
At the Teboil station in Malmi, Helsinki, prices of 95 E10 petrol rose from 1.879 euros per litre on Tuesday evening to 2.069 euros a litre on Wednesday.
The polttoaine.net website, which records petrol prices at filling stations to help consumers find the cheapest deals, said that the average price on Tuesday was 1.902 euros per litre.
Teboil's marketing and communications manager Toni Flyckt said that prices are often adjusted in the middle of the week and now prices rose on the first day of the strike.
"The strike does not affect our fuel prices," said Flyckt. "We have prepared by filling our reserves."
He said that prices are not expected to rise significantly in the near future.
"We follow competitors' pricing and the global market price is a big factor," said Flyckt. Big crises and the general global situation affect prices."
ST1 sales boss Juha Vanninen has not observed any impact on prices from the strike.
"This is not exceptional, it's completely normal price fluctuation," said Vanninen. "There's been quite a lot of turbulence in fuel prices over the last year."
The S-Group has said it prepared for the strike, and potential hoarding of fuel, by replenishing stocks before it started.
Sufficient fuel
Filling station entrepreneurs say the price fluctuations are normal. In Mailmi, Helsinki, Teboil's Petteri Kärki says that individual filling stations have little chance of influencing the price of fuel.
"Us shopkeepers don't decide the prices ourselves," said Kärki. "Fuel prices are fluctuating now, I can't really say why."
Kärki does not believe that the truck drivers' strike will not affect petrol availability, however.
"Distribution will be handled somehow and it's been promised that there will be sufficient fuel."
Jari Salonen, of the union of petrol station owners, said that the strike and petrol price jumps "do not correlate at all".
"I would not go stirring up fear and hoarding," said Salonen. "Reserves are huge and fuel will of course be available."
Russia's assault on Ukraine has raised prices, and the general global market situation also has an impact.
"Generally the situation is now calmer than it was a while ago. If somewhere in the world there is a crisis or if production units shut down, then it has an impact. A strike in the Finnish logistics sector does not affect the global market price [of oil products]."
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