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Women are “an unused resource” in the shipping industry, a resource which should be tapped if the industry is to expand.

That’s according to Lee Adamson, from the International Maritime Organization (IMO).

Although up to 90 per cent of world trade is carried out using ships, the work of the people on those vessels is not well known.