The shipping industry cannot hide from the challenge of how the increasing amount of goods and energy the world demands can be shipped around the globe, while lowering the shipping industry’s environmental impact.

Speaking at Southampton University, where he studied as both an undergraduate, postgraduate and also lectured for a year in Maritime Engineering, Shell Shipping & Maritime vice-president Grahaeme Henderson said the world is seeing an unprecedented rise in demand for energy, goods and products that is being driven by a rapidly increasing affluent middle class within a global population growing by 200,000 people a day.

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