Salvors help keep ports clear and open

摘要

It should go without saying that shipping is the lifeblood of world trade. And while many economies face grave difficulties and the shipping sector struggles with over-capacity and poor rates, seaborne trade must, and does, continue. The infrastructure supporting shipping on approach to, and in, port is well established and well understood: the network of increasingly sophisticated -and ever larger - ports, the dominance of containerisation, pilotage, modern navigation systems, dredging and so on. But one vital sector is perhaps less well recognised. It is marine salvage.