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Author Rose George has spent the past few years investigating the shipping industry. Her book, Ninety Percent of Everything (that’s what it’s called in the US, over on this side of the pond it will be entitle Deep Sea and Foreign Going – why? Well, ...
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Martyn Benson
August 22, 2013 at 1:00 pmWell, the facts nos 2, 3 and 5 can already be discounted as not accurate!
rose george
August 22, 2013 at 3:01 pmPirates are not predatory or prevalent? I’m not sure how you figure that out. They are no longer endemic off the coast of Somalia, but piracy is flourishing off West Africa and starting again in the Malacca straits.
Martyn Benson
August 31, 2013 at 1:10 pmRose, WADR, the piracy in the Malacca Straits and GoG are nothing like the GoA/IO events and, while ships may be attacked, they are not held and the crew are rarely held. In legal terms, the GoG and Malacca events are actually robbery, not piracy.
Erich Bake
August 22, 2013 at 6:51 pmA nice and fun way to bring awareness about the shipping industry and what’s behind what we take for granted day in and out. Amazing when you think that even those who routinely import and export do not imagine what lies behind a booking and BL ! Not too accurate, agreed, but it makes you smile.