Monrovia, Feb. 10 -- FPA has gathered from viewing of port records that the port was dredged in 2017 by Nordsee Dredging International, a subsidiary of Dredging Environment Marine International (DEME Group). Four years earlier, in 2012, another company, Van Oord dredged the port.

A new wrangle has surfaced amid lingering questions over what is really responsible for the shortage of gasoline in Liberia.

Last week, Professor Wilson Tarpeh, Minister of Commerce and Industry, laid the blame on the lack of dredging as a primary reason why large vessels have been prevented from berthing at the port for fear of being stuck while attempting to dock.

Also, last week, making an appearance before the Senate, Mr. Bill Twehway, head of the National...