It wasn’t until a health scare that I had first-hand experience of one of our industry’s greatest treasures — its heart and soul.

Two years ago, immediately after the last Posidonia International Shipping Exhibition, my three grown children flew to join me in Greece for their first trip to a country I have visited continually since 1978.

They were excited to see sunset at Sounion, tread the same flagstones at the Acropolis as Socrates, explore the pathways of Delphi, have lunch in the village of Galaxidi (courtesy of former IMO secretary-general Efthimios Mitropoulos), gawk at the Corinth Canal and try to imagine where St Paul addressed the Corinthians.

Eventually