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You know, I think it's fun to learn as you go along.
I wouldn't want to spoil any of the learning experiences for my 20-year-old self.
Thanks, Nathan.
I mean, Freitas is targeting the world of international freight.
And if you just look around yourself there, you'll see that, you know, most of the items in your house are imported or in your office.
So your headphones, that screen, most of those books will be manufactured and printed in China or Vietnam or Lithuania or wherever it is.
So, in fact, 90% of the products that we buy in the West are
are imported.
So our entire lifestyle is very dependent on international freight.
And like you said correctly in the introduction, it's a very, very large industry.
It's about a trillion dollars are spent each year on shipping goods between countries.
So very, very large.
Yeah, so it's sort of door-to-door in the end.
So it's the truck to get to the port.
It's the ocean liners.
So it's your share of the gas and of the ship.
A ship can contain up to 18,000 containers right now.
But your stuff is in one of those containers, and you're paying your share of the gas and the other operating costs and the capital costs of the ship.
Then the port handling, it could come in through Long Beach, for example.
It's the biggest port in the U.S.