Samantha Hurst
Regional Sales & Marketing Manager for Mid-Atlantic

Hello. Good morning to everyone. Thank you so much for joining us today. I am going to say a little bit of cheers to our friends on the West Coast. And as some of you have said these 8 a.m. webinars are a bit tough to get started in the morning. So I hope you've got a cup of caffeine or if you've stayed up and you're on the East Coast, if you stayed up watching a lot of World Cup soccer, like my family has, hopefully, you've got some caffeine too. So today, we are going to talk about the ocean market -- well, the ocean market, clearly, I'm stumbling there. We're going to talk about the ocean market update, what's happening with things going on in our industry and hopefully give you a bit of an update on all the changes that we have been seeing happening in that market. And my name is Samantha Hurst. You are likely to have gotten several e-mails from me reminding you about this webinar and getting you registered. If you have any technical difficulties, you may respond back to those e-mails, and I'll do my best to support you in the background today.

I'm going to talk first just a little bit about a quick disclaimer. If you've not joined one of our webinars before. These events are meant to be, of course, educational. They're not intended to give you any kind of financial advice, legal advice, et cetera. We are offering you what we understand to be happening based on the things