Shipping professionals should be 'more passionate in promoting their industry'

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By David Badger

26/06/2014

Shipping professionals were urged by speakers at WISTA-UK Liverpool Forum debate this week to become more passionate about promoting their industry.

It is time to stand up and shout about the enormous benefits that the shipping industry brings to the UK and to international trade, panelists declared in the course of a debate at the WISTA-UK Liverpool Forum, a day-long event during the International Festival for Business on Merseyside.

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