Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our guests here today. It has been very enlightening to hear a perspective that is maybe somewhat different from what we've heard before. I want to touch on that a bit.
One of the things we heard from shippers, and I heard very contrary today, is that they shouldn't be talking about the complex network. It should be focused on their needs and their needs only and what they need to get their goods to the market.
I've heard all five witnesses today speaking very much about the need to talk about the complex network. It was very interesting to also see that all the ports see themselves as part of that complex network. You're not saying you're standing outside of it but that you are part of it; you actually expand even further the railways' complexity that they're already dealing with within the confines of their own network.
Mr. Xotta, because you mentioned in your comments that it's essential for a full understanding of the supply chain network, maybe you can start with expanding on why it's so important, and what you'd respond to these shippers as to why it is so important, to be looking at the whole complex network of the shipping system.
Mr. Xotta.