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certainly a lot of activity, but not yet a lot of construction. experience, whereas if we’re doing 100 a year, each one’s

MF: While we’re strongly in favor of decarbonization be- an opportunity for us to learn and then apply that knowl- cause it’s the right thing to do, it also presents an oppor- edge to the next one.

tunity for our company. Robert Allan is somewhat unique When a vessel owner comes to us, they need to trust in that we’re a relatively large ? rm of naval architects that that we’re going to give them a working vessel at the end. focuses almost entirely on small commercial workboats, And I think we’ve built up over the years a pretty good whereas most of our competitors in that market are quite reputation for integrating new technologies and delivering a bit smaller than us without necessarily the breadth of ex- not R&D platforms, but actual working vessels. That puts perience, certainly in terms of the number vessels that get us in pretty good stead going forward with most of the built. So as the vessels get more complex technically, that operators in the U.S. We have a number of really good and plays into our strength here as a company. The fact that very loyal owner clients in the U.S. that we’ve developed we build so many vessels means we get the opportunity to good boats for in the past, and they look to us to develop learn from each one. If you’re only having ? ve vessels built more in the future. So, maintaining our leading position of your design every year, it takes a while to build up that in terms of technology creates opportunity for us, for sure.

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