Vivid reminders came this week that companies are never inanimate and dry spreadsheets — they are made by the people who shape them.

And in shipping, personalities and influence come no bigger than Maria Angelicoussis and John Fredriksen who both made radical moves in different ways.

Meanwhile, as the global supply-chain crisis flared the containership orders continued to roll in, while Maersk was reeled from allegations one of its captains abused seafarers and cadets.