Thank you very much. It's a pleasure to appear in front of this standing committee.
The Terrace Bay pulp mill is the newest member of the Buchanan group of companies. My friend and colleague Pino Pucci is the president of lumber sales, so we are going to tag-team this presentation.
The Terrace Bay pulp mill was shut down by Neenah Paper about a year and a half ago. It was shut down for nine months. We purchased that mill and restarted it. It is one of the largest pulp mills in North America. It is directly and indirectly responsible for the employment of about 1,000 people along the north shores of Lake Superior.
Obviously, one of the biggest issues for us is transportation. It's a very large cost. We have three options: rail, marine, and trucking. What I was going to do was get Pino to talk about the rail issue, and I will follow up with a conversation about the other two options that are out there.
Pino, I'd ask you to make that presentation.