Herding Cats

When Jim Lawrence interviewed me a number of years ago for a job as a summer intern for Marine Money, he invited me for a clandestine lunch at a smoky little bar in Old Greenwich, Connecticut frequented by shipping whales and pilot fish. Leaning across the table, shoulders up, head darting suspiciously from side to side, he whispered, as if someone from Lloyd’s Shipping Economist might have been eavesdropping, “The purpose of Marine Money is to link together shipping and the capital markets.” As this month’s cover reflects, the mandate was a taller order than herding cats, but Jim was on his way and I was invited to join the team. Since then, the mission has been pursued with enthusiasm and unflinching determination, and I have watched our business grow from a small newsletter to the premier provider of intelligence to the ship finance community.

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