Brexit is good news for shipping industry

IN last week's issue of shipping newspaper Tradewinds my good friend Adam Corbett reported that a British trade union official had been barred from becoming a member of the European Maritime Safety Agency's administrative board. Mark Dickinson, the general secretary of maritime union Nautilus International, ostensibly had his application rejected because he is male. That was unacceptable apparently because of the need for "gender balance". But it is also in line with a new blanket ban on British citizens taking such posts. He is, however, also the head of a union that has a branch in an EU country - the Netherlands.

Now please bear with me on this and resist the urge to turn the page. This not just about some paroch…