Marine Atlantic, like other transportation providers, has a fuel surcharge to help offset costs associated with diesel fuel. Factors taken into consideration when setting our fuel surcharge, include our sailing schedule, the availability of fuel suppliers, and fuel purchase price. From a sailing schedule perspective, we develop our schedule and look at traditional vessel fuel usage to determine the anticipated fuel consumption for the upcoming year. Given that we purchase large volumes of fuel at one time and place it in our storage tanks, we have more price certainty for a defined period of time. Marine Atlantic uses a fuel hedging program to reduce the risk of price volatility. This allows fixed prices to be negotiated in advance to provide more certainty for budgetary planning purposes. This approach also protects customers against unpredictable price swings and having to adjust the fuel surcharge multiple times per year.