Horatio Clare

In the eye of the storm

In her gripping account of the unseaworthy El Faro, lost with all hands in 2015, Rachel Slade exposes Tote Maritime as a top-to-bottom disgrace

issue 16 June 2018

‘We are globalisation,’ a senior executive at the shipping company Maersk told me. ‘We enable it, and we have questions about it too, but we ask them in isolation.’ He then granted me leave to travel on Maersk vessels wheresoever I wished in order to write a book about shipping and seafarers, promising that Maersk’s lawyers would not vet the manuscript before publication.

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