The count is the ministry's own, published Monday: a national average of 58 waiting cars per station, with the steepest falls where queues were worst, from 250 to 40 in Umnugovi and from 200 to 55 in Dundgovi. Darkhan-Uul and Sukhbaatar both came down to 55, Arkhangai to 50. Tuv sits at 70. Bulgan and Dornod still run above 100 cars, and the ministry names them as the remaining stress points.
The framing credits the emergency fuel taskforce chaired by state secretary B. Dashpurev, with ministerial orders to push deliveries into the provinces still short. The post carries one supply claim, that imports and distribution continue normally, and no tonnes.
The tonnage is harder reading. At the last public accounting, given by Dashpurev on 27 August, the August book had 74,780 tonnes of AI-92 ordered against 51,000 received, and 158,650 tonnes of diesel against 130,000. The ministry's separate September plan for import top-ups through mining companies lists 10,000 tonnes of petrol and 3,000 of jet fuel, and carries no diesel line. Company answers to that plan were due 29 August; none had appeared on the ministry's site by Monday evening.
The post carries one supply claim, that imports and distribution continue normally, and no tonnes.
The next date is fiscal. The Speaker's Council is due to decide on 1 September whether to call an extraordinary session for a budget revision; no preview of that agenda had surfaced by Monday evening.