Tom Behrens-Sorensen is best known as the long-serving former head of Maersk in China, but since leaving the company in 2009 he has put his experience and government connections to work as a lobbyist and consultant here for mostly shipping clients, including Brazilian miner Vale.

For the past year, the Dane has been advising foreign clients who want to get in on Chinese president Xi Jinping’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) programme of worldwide transport infrastructure investment.

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