Daniel Sullivan actually said...

"These routes can save shippers weeks in travel and are thousands of nautical miles shorter when compared to using the Suez Canal or Panama Canals."

"I think there is still some work to do but no question, it is important and a lot better than where we were before we had the Polar Code."

"I think it is a great point that certainly we have a lot to learn from, in terms of, how the Great Lakes have operated."

"It therefore, behooves our Federal Government, all of us, private industry and Arctic stakeholders to fully focus on preparing for this new eventuality."