Fresh evidence emerged this week of the shipping industry’s increasing exposure to the public eye. New, easily shared digital data sources provide increasing knowledge of the detail of businesses' activities that were once unseen.

High-profile green campaigner Greta Thunberg questioned shipping’s exclusion from the Paris accord as she addressed the United Nation’s Madrid climate change summit.

Meanwhile, at virtually the same moment, new European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her Green Deal that proposes to bring shipping into Europe’s emissions trading system.