“I think like all marriages it started with a bit of dating,” said chief executive Bjorn Hojgaard. “You start looking at each other and you say, ‘I’m free tonight, how about a dinner?’ And it moves on from there. I think that’s how it started.”

Perhaps over coffee Hojgaard and Anglo Eastern chief Peter Cremers agreed a deal and two of the best-known names in the Hong Kong ship management sector tied the knot last week.