Shell’s Grahaeme Henderson has once again made an outspoken attack on shipping’s bad safety record and urged greater collaboration among industry players to improve standards and reduce deaths.

Shipping’s fatality record was “appalling” but industry leaders had the power to cut the death toll, Henderson told the Global Maritime Forum in Singapore.

Addressing a crowd of approaching 250 senior executives from around the world, he highlighted that was about the number of people killed by the industry every eight weeks.