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INSIGHTS ‘boots on the ground’ experience to the solution. By his own admission, he never forgets where he came from and that attitude carries over into every mission or role that he takes on. This month, he weighs in on the complicated world of regulatory and environmental compliance on inland water- ways, his role in that space and what to expect next.

In November of 2015, you completed the acquisition of AEP to form one of the largest marine transpor- tation ? rms in the country. That said; marrying the safety and regulatory culture of two different ? rms can be dif? cult. How did that take shape at ACBL and

Captain how did you go about it from a regulatory standpoint?

The legal issues surrounding the period of time leading up to the actual handover of assets was a particularly tough

Matthew Lagarde thing to work around. There was a period of time when the two different operating companies had very limited Director of communication which made transition planning dif