Ulfar Norddahl worked with general cargoships from north Spain carrying wines, sherry, onions and tomatoes on pallets from a wooden shed inside a warehouse at Liverpool docks.
It was to give him a taste of customs' procedures and captains’ values.
“It was decided with shippers in Spain to send a case of each of the wines on every shipment ‘gratis’ to stop pilfering as there had been many complaints from receivers that they were missing bottles," he said.
