Colonial Pipeline slowly emerges from shutdown, but fuel pinch lingers
By Jeffrey Bair and Jill R. Shah Bloomberg News,Updated May 13, 2021, 2 hours ago
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A tanker driver delivers 9.000 gallons of fuel to a gas station in Raleigh, N.C., Thursday.Travis Long/Associated Press
The largest US fuel pipeline was running at less than half capacity Thursday after hackers hit its system nearly a week earlier, with fuel shortages persisting from Florida to Virginia.
Colonial Pipeline Co. resumed shipments Wednesday evening. But flows eastbound near the start of the system, which transports gasoline, diesel. and jet fuel from Gulf Coast refineries as far north as New York, were far from normal.