Puerto Rico gasoline imports reach 2017 levels, overcoming hurricanes and a pandemic

Puerto Rico imported its third-highest monthly volume of gasoline since 2017 in January and kept an even brisker pace into February, showing resurgence for the US territory decimated by economic troubles and population loss from hurricanes Irma and Maria and then the pandemic. US Customs data Feb. 16 also showed only 21.7% of Puerto Rico’s 2.6 million barrels of imported…