MONTREAL (UPI)
A 50 percent rise in fuel costs kept many of Canada's 34 naval vessels at port in 2007, the Sun Media group reported from Montreal Monday. Under the Access to Information Act, the news group learned from defense documents the ships spent an average of 81 days at sea last year at a cost of more than $51 million. That's a jump from $34.1 million in 2006, the report said. A member of the Bloc Quebecois opposition party, Claude Bachand, told the agency the navy was facing another relatively dry year."The (fuel) bill will certainly rise by another 25 percent this year," Bachand said. "Fuel consumption varies according to cruising speed and weather conditions, but in a visit on the frigate HMCS Winnipeg I was told it costs $25,000 in gas per day." HMCS Toronto (frigate) was the busiest ship in the fleet in 2007 with a total of 179 days at sea, including a lengthy mission in the Middle East.The report said fuel prices appear to be the reason the navy didn't participate in annual international exercises between January and March last year.
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A 50 percent rise in fuel costs kept many of Canada's 34 naval vessels at port in 2007, the Sun Media group reported from Montreal Monday. Under the Access to Information Act, the news group learned from defense documents the ships spent an average of 81 days at sea last year at a cost of more than $51 million. That's a jump from $34.1 million in 2006, the report said. A member of the Bloc Quebecois opposition party, Claude Bachand, told the agency the navy was facing another relatively dry year."The (fuel) bill will certainly rise by another 25 percent this year," Bachand said. "Fuel consumption varies according to cruising speed and weather conditions, but in a visit on the frigate HMCS Winnipeg I was told it costs $25,000 in gas per day." HMCS Toronto (frigate) was the busiest ship in the fleet in 2007 with a total of 179 days at sea, including a lengthy mission in the Middle East.The report said fuel prices appear to be the reason the navy didn't participate in annual international exercises between January and March last year.
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