Expeditors’ flexible, non-asset model once again proved to be instrumental in providing customers with integrated solutions and lower transportation costs. In an incredibly tough year for the airline industry, we maintained excellent relationships with carriers to ensure that our customers still had access to innovative programs and a seamless uplift pipeline. Both Expeditors select carriers and Expeditors customers seek stronger links to bring greater economic and efficient means in getting products to market, and we support this goal through tripartite arrangements wherever possible. Air carriers need to partner with forwarders to provide value-add programs while still supplying the airport to airport transportation. Expeditors, as the vital conduit between shipper and airline, enables the value-add programs that exporters/importers seek to reduce costs.