your presentations. MEMBER MAUNE: Thank you. MEMBER BARBOR: Ken Barbor. Bud, you highlighted Galveston as a need for precision navigation over, probably, higher throughput, Miami's or other places that have a risk factor issues. What's driving your Galveston recommendation? MR. DARR: A couple of things. One is the complexity of the navigation entering that port, whether it's Galveston or Houston/Galveston. Also, the weather conditions are much more challenging than we typically see in the higher volume ports on the East Coast of Florida, which rank one, two and three in the world in volume. They're just not as weather adverse and the conditions are more predictable and the navigation conditions and the volume of traffic you see in both directions is not the same. And the other reason why is I do think that Galveston has
your presentations. MEMBER MAUNE: Thank you. MEMBER BARBOR: Ken Barbor. Bud, you highlighted Galveston as a need for precision navigation over, probably, higher throughput, Miami's or other places that have a risk factor issues. What's driving your Galveston recommendation? MR. DARR: A couple of things. One is the complexity of the navigation entering that port, whether it's Galveston or Houston/Galveston. Also, the weather conditions are much more challenging than we typically see in the higher volume ports on the East Coast of Florida, which rank one, two and three in the world in volume. They're just not as weather adverse and the conditions are more predictable and the navigation conditions and the volume of traffic you see in both directions is not the same. And the other reason why is I do think that Galveston has
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