Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2024
Everything is connected
I dare say that shipping is the biggest melting pot – by definition a place or a situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together – among the multitude of global industries. No other business brings together so many different nations, people, cultures, beliefs and interests. Around 1.8 million seafarers are sailing the world at any one time, ensuring the safe transit of raw materials, energy, and manufactured goods along the world’s supply chains. The work is demanding and unique, but there is one thing it should certainly never be: a danger to life....