JERUSALEM — PepsiCo and Coke bottlers in the West Bank are running out of cans and sugar, blocked by the prolonged closure of a Jordan border crossing, managers of two soda-bottling plants in the occupied Palestinian territory said.
A Palestinian man walks past Gaza Pepsi factory for soft drinks in Gaza City, June 21, 2021.
The Pepsi facility, located in Jericho, ran out of materials for its canned soft drinks about 15 days ago, Omari said, and has not been able to get new shipments of cans or sugar for more than one month.A Coke bottler based in Ramallah has been running low on some soft drink flavours and is without its usual supplies of sugar and cans, according to Imad Hindi, general manager of National Beverage Company.
"From Beirut to Iran to Gaza, it's really hard to just run a normal business and no one is immune to it," said Associate Professor Paul Musgrave from Georgetown University in Qatar. "You need sugar, you need cans, you need people, you need electricity, and it's all being disrupted." Without cans, it continues to use plastic bottles, but he said margins on plastic-bottled drinks are lower.
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