Shipping’s reputation to those outside of the industry remains coloured by drama, scandal and intrigue. Cheap fiction has long peddled stories of fraud, piracy and reckless behaviour driven by buccaneering magnates who feel immune to any sense of moral or financial responsibility.
Of course, to those who work in today’s professional shipping business, that all adds up to an antediluvian view of the real world that serves to hinder their hard-won efforts to bring the industry into the mainstream.
