john paul rodriguez is a professor at hofstra university in the department of global studies and geography . he's also a specialist in port logistics and shipping a warm welcome to you all and thanks so much for joining us today on inside story. lars, as we mentioned in the intro there, uh, as i understand that you are able to see at least some of the vessels that would like to enter the panama canal from outside of your office window. i, i want to ask you, uh, where do things stand as of now, what do we know, how many ships are still trying to transit through the canal and are waiting and have wait times been improving? so yes, it is correct that i'm speaking to from panama, and i'm near the the theater water side. yeah. so, so certainly there are no 100 on bucks. it's waving and, and i would say, i don't have an up to date or accurate account right now. but, but we are talking to the canal and it is probably just above a 100 still waiting to to cross to come out and wait, waiting time, cyber quoted for the residents that are impacted. and perhaps that's the point we should talk about, di