Alexandra Geldenhuys first began thinking about shipping while working with a non-profit organisation on a cocoa bean plantation in Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest.
She had landed there out of a desire to get as “far away from modernity as possible” after university in Brighton, southeast England.
Geldenhuys and her colleagues were working on the plantation to foster fair-trade food production that was ethical, organic and part of an environmentally sustainable lifestyle.
But
