A sample of shipowners, shipbrokers, shipmanagers and maritime lawyers located in the Sheung Wan, Central, Admiralty and Wan Chai districts of Hong Kong largely agree their staff has made it to work today despite barricades placed by both protesters and police.

News and social media over the weekend have been filled with still and moving images of standoffs with police, pepper-sprayings and teargassings, and motorways packed with tens of thousands of democracy protesters in the streets that are home to many shipping and related businesses.

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