Twelve months on and they are back. The organisers of this year’s “ladies in shipping and trading Xmas lunch” sent out 260 invitations in October to both the home crowd and several international invitees.
The invites were snapped up on a first-come, first-served basis in just two weeks and a waiting list was opened.
The team behind the event was made up of Kate Brady from Clarksons’s dry cargo department, BP’s Nicci Barry, Lynette Chng from Eastern Pacific Shipping, Clarksons Tankers’ Debra Hampton and Susie Wallace of the wonderfully entitled “Shipping Wives And Girlfriends”, or “Swag”.
But
