I can say it was a knife fight to the end. - John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad
“I’ve been in this industry for 30 years and
I’ve never seen anything like it,” one shipping executive told me today.
- “You just don’t say NO to these guys. It’s unheard of.”
- It’s unclear who “these guys” are, but I suspect the European families with shipping investments and net wealth that far exceeds Elon’s.
Absolutely none of the maritime experts I interviewed early this week thought the US could pull this off. Zero.
- Massive amounts of money, NGO influence, diplomatic threat and media manipulation were behind this…
- And yet Trump did it...
Promises made. Promises kept!
