Dynasties of the Sea: The Shipowners and Financiers Who Expanded the Era of Free Trade

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Another great book by Lori Ann LaRocco. It teaches you many valuable lessons on how to run a shipping company. I highly recommend it.

I am new to the "Blue Water" transportation sector so I decided to read this book. The shipping magnets which were interviewed, provided interesting insight in regards to their abilities to navigate the volatile world of shipping. The world of shipping finance and its ever present European influence was depicted by LaRocco when interviewing Dagfinn Lunde. Robert Bugbee the larger than life President of Scorpio Tankers gives his insights on the importance of momentum. There are valuable nuggets if information packed into this well written book covering modern day shipping titans.

...with a good overview over the most important people in the shipping business and their histories. However, you have to be interested in it, it is not written in a particularly entertaining way, more a fact book

This book is an interesting and fascinating account of the shipping business which moves 90% of all goods in the world today. If you have been on cruises or visited any large port you have seen and possibly wondered about the shipping business and its colossal ships. This book tells you not only how the business works across the globe but introduces the reader to many of the leading players in the industry. The book gives the reader a good general understanding of the business and if the reader also reads "Ninety Percent of Everything" he/she will get a great first hand account of being aboard and part of a crew.Learn about one of the most crucial industries on the planet, one most people never think of. Read this book !