Shipping’s wealthy elite rarely make the headlines mixing with London’s glamorous, super-rich socialites — unlike in Athens, Monaco, Geneva or even Oslo, where the industry’s magnates, heirs and heiresses often have to jostle their way out of parties through a scrum of paparazzi lenses.
Although London is one of the world’s premier shipping centres, you would be hard-pressed to find a significant industry name regularly exposed in the celebrity-obsessed social magazines and tabloids.
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