In Insider yesterday, nearly missed by us [Where/who is our Business Correspondent?] and of course missed by our MSM:
It is one of the least known facts about the Scottish economy. A handful of players within two square miles in Glasgow manage a significant percentage of the world’s merchant shipping fleet. While shipbuilding and ferry contracts may have been headline news, ship management and other parts of the marine and maritime sector and the overall scale of it are very much under the radar.
“People really don’t realise that the two largest ship managers in the world are based in Glasgow,” says Douglas Lang, group managing director of Anglo-Eastern Offshore and chairman of the Scottish Maritime Cluster. From its office in the quiet, little-traversed Elliot Street in Finnieston, Anglo-Eastern vies with near neighbour V.Ships for bragging rights of being the biggest ship manager in the world.
You have to read a bit for the money but then:
The true picture is striking: the maritime sector in Scotland is a £10bn turnover business. “That’s comparable with many of the other higher-profile sectors,” Lang says, and it is 23 per cent of the UK industry. Its economic contribution or gross value added is £3.6bn or 25 per cent of the UK industry’s GVA and between 40,000 and 50,000 jobs.
https://www.insider.co.uk/special-reports/scotland-greatest-secret-seven-seas-21807795
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This is the kind of business’s we need , forget oil ,isn’t that mostly English managed .
O/T Great to see Alex Salmond back on twitter 🤗 .
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I saw Alex on Twitter, and the first thing to say was praise to Lesley Riddoch et al “Fine work…. Scotland should celebrate the Arbroath Declaration…” for producing their fabulous documentary. Thing is, I can’t help contrast it with Nicola Sturgeon’s retweet of the same “An important part of Scotland’s history is recorded by this film…” somewhat dispassionate, uninterested, and sounds more like a robot reporting on something happening somewhere else. She’s not doing herself any favours that’s for sure. Yes, yes, she’s terribly busy, but if you are to tweet it at all, why not say something shorter like ‘this is great, well done to…’. In fact, I could think of a thousand things that could have been said that would sound more human. No transparency, now no humanity?
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