Shippingcluster.com has been set up in Norway by Eirik Fosse, who says it is an online social network developed exclusively for the global shipping industry — “eliminating all unrelated noise, making people and business easy to find and be found”.

Fosse, who was introduced to the shipping industry in 2007/2008 when he worked for Inchcape Shipping Services’s ShipNet, likens the free service to Facebook and LinkedIn but says the big disadvantage with general social networks is that they are too broad.

“We