It is impossible not to fall in love

The shipping industry has some general characteristics, which believe employees of other industries can also relate to:

• Employees work very hard and don’t think they make enough money (who does?);
• Most of your friends, and even relationships (who never), are with shipping people;
• When you go out with friends, most of the conversation is about vessels and containers (poor guys who are not from shipping);
• You often got yourself dreaming about that booking, bill of lading or change of destination;
• When you are travelling, and you see a container, you write down the unit number and when you get back to the office (there are ones who even call their on duty friends), you track to see the origin/destination and commodity;
• You do have at least one picture at a vessel.

But there is something special about shipping that makes us fall in love. Maybe the grandiosity with 300m+ long vessels carrying 6.000+ boxes. Maybe is the globalization by sending units from Santos to Hong Kong or Vladivostok. Maybe is the cross-cultural environment problem resolution where you need to contact people from at least one other country to solve.

In the end, it doesn’t matter what it is, the fact is that, once at shipping, you will fall in love for it.