UK shipbroking group Eggar Forrester has paid tribute to former managing director Michael Robinson, who died on Monday at the age of 93.

Described as a “giant of the industry”, Robinson had been ill for a number of months. He had “never really recovered from a rather lonely spell in hospital in September”, Eggar Forrester director Paul Willcox said.

According to handwritten notes that Robinson had prepared on his life, and shown to TradeWinds by his son Simon, the future broker was born in 1927 and educated at...