Buzzwords from a shipping talk fest

AS anybody who reads this column regularly will know, your correspondent was awaiting the onset of the London International Shipping Week (LISW) with some trepidation.

As predicted, there was indeed the huge frustration of so much useful stuff going on that you couldn't possibly attend all of it.

To retain sanity, I planned on taking it in at a leisurely pace, go for just a few events and stay to the end for those. On the other hand, many of my friends in the shipping press did not have this luxury; under strict orders from their editors, they rushed in for events, took notes furiously, grabbed interviews on the fly, and then dashed off to the next event.

So did my plan work? Probably, yes. I can't say anything about the 150 or so events that I missed. But even after my limited ration of high-powered ma…