March 25, 2011 -- Tropical Shipping has experienced significant increases in the cost of the inland transportation of cargo over the last several months. Since our last Inland Fuel Surcharge increase on August 8, 2010, the price of on-highway diesel fuel, as tracked by the U.S. Department of Energy, has increased more than 30%. Highway diesel fuel fluctuations are a function of shifting demand patterns, speculation, tight refining capacity and political uncertainty in the global crude oil markets. To recover these inland fuel expenses, Tropical Shipping will implement an increase to the inland fuel surcharge, for the following locations:

Bahamas, Eastern Caribbean, Western Caribbean, Dominican Republic, Guyana, and the Virgin Islands (USVI and BVI), effective April 24, 2011.

Zone	Affected Areas	Current Surcharge	Increase	New Surcharge (Effective 4/24/11)
Zone 1	Broward, Dade, Indian River, Martin, Okeechobee, Palm Beach, St. Lucie Counties, and Local Hillsborough County (sailing from Port of Tampa only)	$90	$15	$105
Zone 1	A Jacksonville, FL, (Duval County) Local Drayage	$110	$36	$146
Zone 2	FL - All other Florida points not listed in Zone 1	$175	$58	$233
Zone 3	AL, GA, SC	$280	$92	$372
Zone 4	MS, NC, LA, TN	$440	$145	$585
Zone 5	TX, MO, IL, IN, OH, NJ and PA	$625	$206	$831
Zone 6	OK, KS, NE IA, WI, MI, CT, RI, NY, MA, VT, NH and ME	$700	$231	$931
Zone 7	All others and Canada only if routed by land to the U.S. (intra-Canada moves do not apply)	$800	$264	$1,064
Zone 8	WA and OR	$900	$297	$1,197
Zone 9	AR, KY, VA, MD, DE, WV, Washington D.C.	$525	$173	$698

A visual representation of these zones and corresponding surcharges follows: