Essentially, while we obviously need and maintain a core fleet of vessels, and we are normally operating 25 plus vessels at any given time, our business is a service business and what we aim to do is to really satisfy the needs of clients and make ourselves useful to their transportation needs.
There were already 24 foreign vessels that were operating in the Gulf before the State Department announced two days ago additional international assistance.
The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) puts the number of fishing vessels at around 4 million with a staggering 86 percent of them operating in Asian waters.
Wightlink introduced three larger vessels to the Lymington to Yarmouth route in 2009 and they were allowed to continue operating despite a High Court ruling that their introduction had been unlawful.