Chris Hartnoll, the founder of Singapore-based Sea Consortium and X-Press Feeders, has died. He was aged 89.

Hartnoll was born in Tabora, Tanganiyka in May 1926, the oldest of two sons born to Amyas Victor Hartnoll, an officer in the Colonial Administration.

He is said to have developed his taste for the sea at a young age. At the age of 16, he went to The Worcester, a school to prepare young men entering the Merchant Navy.

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