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SINGAPORE: Grab, Gojek, ComfortDelGro’s CDG Zig and Tada will extend their temporary fuel surcharge until Sep 30, amid elevated fuel prices.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post on Wednesday (Jul 22), the National Private Hire Vehicles Association said that the four ride-hailing platforms would maintain their driver fee and fuel support measures following the association’s continued engagement with the operators.<\/p>\n
Fuel prices in Singapore have remained elevated since the <\/span>war on Iran<\/span> started in late February.<\/span><\/p>\n According to online car marketplace Motorist Singapore, pump prices for 95-octane petrol in Singapore on Thursday ranged from S$3.36 (US$2.60) to S$3.37 per litre. It cost S$2.87 to S$2.88 per litre on Feb 23, before the Middle East conflict began.<\/p>\n Under the extension, a S$0.90 fuel surcharge will continue to apply to all Grab transport bookings except standard and metered taxi rides.\u00a0<\/span>Grab had first raised its fuel surcharge<\/span> on Apr 7, before <\/span>extending it until Jul 31<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n Gojek <\/span>first announced<\/span> in April it had adjusted its temporary driver fee to 90 cents for all trip distances to help drivers cope with rising operating costs.<\/span><\/p>\n ComfortDelGro currently imposes a temporary driver fee of S$0.50 for fares below S$15 and $0.80 for fares of S$15 and above for bookings made through its CDG Zig app.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The company said in March that the move was aimed at easing the financial strain on drivers caused by rising fuel prices.<\/p>\n Commuters taking Tada rides currently pay a surcharge of 90 cents for trips costing up to S$18, and a surcharge of S$1.20 for trips costing S$18.10 or more. Tada first announced a temporary adjustment to its driver’s fee – renamed fuel support – in April.<\/span><\/p>\n “Importantly, these fees are passed on fully to drivers and do not attract platform commission,” the National Private Hire Vehicles Association said.<\/p>\n It added that it regularly engages platform operators to advocate for “practical measures” that support drivers on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n Oil prices also rose more than 1.5 per cent to their <\/span>highest in more than six weeks<\/span> on Thursday, with the United States launching a new round of strikes on Iran and <\/span>Yemen’s Houthis<\/span> targeting oil tankers in the Red Sea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n SINGAPORE: Grab, Gojek, ComfortDelGro’s CDG Zig and Tada will extend their temporary fuel surcharge until Sep 30, amid elevated fuel prices. In a Facebook post…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--GHwtyEBe--\/c_crop,h_1458,w_2592,x_0,y_272\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/tdy-migration\/32449290_0.JPG?itok=zBwD3I_C","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3757,6403,3422,13862,2814,3588,17899,17107],"class_list":["post-71104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-extend","tag-fuel","tag-platforms","tag-ridehailing","tag-rides","tag-sep","tag-surcharge","tag-temporary","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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