Mitch Reaves, President and CEO of N.B. Handy, is hopeful
that business will pick up in the last half of 2009, but he doesn’t expect
activity to be as high as it was in the first half of 2008, and he notes there
are no guarantees it will improve from current levels. “A lot of investors and
individuals are sitting on the sidelines waiting for the dust to settle,” he
said.