![]() ![]() Even shipping people admit that their industry is clubby, insular, difficult. ![]() Publicly listed shipping companies are still a minority. There are wealthy tycoons still, Norse, Greek and Danish, belonging to family companies who maintain a level of privacy that makes a Swiss banker seem verbose. Maersk ships travel regular routes around Australia and Yokohama named Boomerang and Yo-Yo, and the Bossa Nova and Samba around South America. Now there are freight routes, turnarounds and boxes and the cool mechanics of modern industry, but there is still intrigue and fortune. There were trade winds, sailor towns and sails, chaos and colour. The routes of spice, tea and salt, of amber and incense. Cardamom, silk, ginger and gold, ivory and saffron. Shipping history is full of such treats and treasures. She was certainly the only Egyptian queen who preferred to be called king. Perhaps Hatshepsut counts as the first shipping tycoon, before the Romans, Phoenicians and Greeks took over. ![]() In the 15th century BC Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt sent a fleet to the Land of Punt and brought back panther skins and ebony, frankincense and dancing pygmies. I saw your advert in the paper retin-a Humans have sent goods by water for at least 4,000 years.
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