I encourage you to continue to look for opportunities to streamline the process.
Thank you for holding this hearing on this very important region of the world.
The--you mentioned Russia be allowing us to cross--and obviously you have it on the map here, where we are crossing Russia with these contai...
What--how would you characterize the safety of the transportation across these routes?
Finally, if I could get both of you to comment on this, how would you characterize the various countries--their governments' commitment to s...
I'm looking, here, at the map, and I assume the green that's on here are the main routes that we're talking about.
And are they ship-delivered, or air-delivered?
You mentioned that you've jumped--and you gave us the chart here that goes from 20 containers a week up to 350 containers a week.
Like Senator Landrieu, I believe that this is the wave of the future.
It seems to me it's time for a next generation of licensing.
15 years is an open-ended commitment.