I'm going to defer to Mr. Boehm, who was the individual, along with Mr. Fox and other leaders in this exercise, who made arrangements for the leasing of ships, as well as the important second component, which was the leasing of airplanes to bring Canadians back directly to Canada.
In all, there were 32 ferry passages--31 out of Beirut and one out of Tyre--and all individuals were processed either through Cyprus or Mersin, Turkey.
We had seven contracts signed for sea transportation, ten contracts for air transportation. There were 52 flights back to Canada--31 from Cyprus, 21 from Turkey. There were 425 emergency passports issued in this period, which again required a great deal of person-hours to process that exercise. A total of 12,555 evacuees have now safely returned to Canada.
Your question about specifics of who we were competing with and how these contracts were arrived at, I think, can be best answered by Mr. Boehm. But there was competition--fierce competition--bidding, in fact, for the use of the limited number of ships that were available in both Turkey and Cyprus for this exercise.
Mr. Boehm.