London International Shipping Week once again has allowed the UK capital to show off its fabled status as one of the world’s most influential centres of maritime business and networking.
Its benchmark legal and financial infrastructure, language and culture give it an edge and character that many rival cities try to copy, while few succeed.
Yet the week has also once again exposed London’s sense of entitlement to world-leading status, which leaves it open to clear risks in an ever more competitive world.
