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Ferry fuel surcharge back for the summer

Published on June 15th, 2009; Published on June 28th, 2010
Staff ~ The Gulf News

Residents and tourists looking to cross the gulf on a Marine Atlantic ferry will be paying six per cent more as of July 17.

The company announced it would reinstate its fuel surcharge on travel after that date due to rising fuel costs.

Topics :: Marine Atlantic , Canada

Residents and tourists looking to cross the gulf on a Marine Atlantic ferry will be paying six per cent more as of July 17.

The company announced it would reinstate its fuel surcharge on travel after that date due to rising fuel costs.

Customers with existing reservations will not be impacted. Fuel costs will be reviewed again in September 2009 for an update in October 2009.

As mandated by the Government of Canada, Marine Atlantic's fuel surcharge formula is designed to recover all fuel costs above the 2006 base year.

The surcharge had been reduced to zero on April 1. The fuel surcharge is adjusted quarterly. It reached as high as 27.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2008 before falling slightly to 25.4 per cent for the final three months of the year. It was lowered to nine per cent on Jan. 1.

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Frank

- June 28th, 2010 at 14:29:49

The fuel surtax will discourage tourists, especiall Newfoundlanders who have a few weeks vacation to spend with their families back home. The surtax may not be good for the pockets of many, but the rising cost of food is very discouraging as well. The business people are adding their own prices and it is getting out of control. It will all add up with the fuel surtax.

The people who will get hurt from all of this is The Bed and Breakfast and Motel owners. What they got a lot of joy doing is becoming a nightmare for many.
The Minister of Tourism is not doing a very good job of advertising Newfoundland and Labrador. He speaks well to the media, but that is as far as it goes. He doesn,t seem to care that his poor plan for tourism will hurt everyone from the mechanics, car rentals and the local general stores, even the local newspaper sales.

Frank Blackwood

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