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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