Four years into the job as chief operating officer at UK roro operator P&O Ferries, Janette Bell is sounding like a seasoned shipping executive.

Describing her experience of shipping, after a career in retail management — most notably at the UK’s largest supermarket chain, Tesco, and then energy provider British Gas — she says: “I love it, being involved in an industry at the heart of keeping the economy running on the freight side — or, on the tourist side, to see kids excited to be on a ship for the first time.”

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