Regular readers may well recall I am not overly fond of the extremely cluttered maritime events calendar, whereby you can literally be seen for the opening of an envelope in a hundred places a day across the globe for 365 days of the year. So the following might be hard to justify … creative writing exercise 101.

Make no mistake, I am still all for events to be consolidated. In an ideal world, to my mind, each sector should have some annual mega summit with the only cross-sector mega shows b...