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Consultancy working archive on Northeast distillate basis and dealer hedging: terminal-level basis differentials versus the exchange front month for No.2 heating oil and ultra-low sulfur diesel at East Coast terminals along the New York Harbor to Portland, Maine and Baltimore corridor; observed barge charter rates by vessel size class (with the article citing 20-30 thousand barrel barges moving between roughly 0.75 and 1.00 US dollars per barrel and settling near 0.90); tonnage availability and demurrage observations; the linkage between marine fuel costs and charter rates; and, most valuable commercially, the per-client hedging record — the positions, purchase timing, physical versus financial mix and hedge-ratio decisions a consultant accumulates across a client base of heating oil dealers