Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to our witnesses for coming out today to take part in this very important study.
It's well known that masters on these container vessels are coming under increased commercial pressure and having to operate within very tight schedules, and often their schedule for the ships could be laid out months ahead of time. These ships are travelling in heavy seas sometimes. Do you think the masters are being placed under too much pressure? Could this be one of the reasons why these ships are sailing into heavy weather when they could be holding back in safer quadrants with no storms?
Maybe Mr. Harvey could respond.