Kirby Corporation

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Kirby Corporation 2025 second quarter earnings call. At this time, all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speakers presentation, there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session, you will need to press star one one on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question, please press star one one again. Please be advised that today's conference call is being recorded. Please note to mute all your lines while the call is going on. I would now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Kurt Nemitz, Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasure. Please go ahead.

Good morning and thank you for joining the Kirby Corporation 2025 second quarter earnings call. With me today are David Grosbinski, Kirby's Chief Executive Officer, Raj Kumar, Kirby's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and Christian O'Neill, Kirby's President and Chief Operating Officer. Slide presentation for today's conference call as well as the earnings release which was issued earlier today can be found on our website. During this call, we may refer to certain non-GAAP or adjusted financial measures. Reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings press release and are also available on our website in the Investor Relations section. As a reminder, statements contained in this conference call with respect to the future are forward-looking statements. These statements reflect management's reasonable judgment with respect to future events. Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties and our actual results could differ materially from those anticipated as a result of various factors. A list of these risk factors can be found in Kirby's latest form 10K filing and in our other filings made with the SEC from time to time. I will now turn the call over to David. Thank you, Kurt,

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