Visitors to the SGMF’s Liverpool Street office are likely to be invited to take a seat around a solid, funky-looking, Perspex square table. It’s definitely eye-catching but it is also clearly not spanking new and looks as it is has taken a few knocks and scratches in its time.

That’s hardly surprising as in its former life the table was housed inside an LNG sloshing test tank owned by French membrane-type cargo containment system designer GTT.