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Q&A time, sometimes we win in game seven, but it really takes now to make sure that folks understand that tug and barge a united industry, and so I just really appreciate the great transportation is the most sustainable mode of freight work of AWO members, of coalition partners, shippers, transportation? How can we make sure that our ports and other associations, WCI, maritime labor who really help waterways infrastructure is funded, is operating in a way us form an effective ? ghting force. that optimizes both economic ef? ciency and also environ-

The other thing I’ll say is I think it’s really important to mental ef? ciency? What do we need to be doing now to always have what I would call a bifocal vision. Obviously, make sure that we’re not handicapping or stymieing?

we’ve got to deal with the issues that are right in front of We need to make sure the path is clear for innovators, us now. What do we need to ? x today because it’s a prob- for ? rst movers who want to adopt new technology and lem, because it’s a challenge, but we’ve also got to be look- then scale that so the rest of us can learn from it. The ATB ing ahead and saying, “Hey, what are the things that we crewing issue I mentioned is an example where we’re pe- can be doing now to prepare ourselves for the future?” and nalizing companies that have made investments in tech- so a lot of our work on sustainability, on workforce is re- nology designed to make things safer and more ef? cient. ally aimed at that objective. What do we need to be doing We’ve got to ? x that.