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Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

Increased trade is crucial to a balanced plan for stimulating growth and job creation on both sides of the Atlantic.

There are few industries as defiantly opaque as shipping. Even offshore bankers have not developed a system as intricately elusive as the flag of convenience, under which ships can fly the flag of a state that has nothing to do with its owner, cargo, crew, or route.

Seafarers are used to being exploited. At sea, the captain moans at chandlers who supply ships with green bananas that will never ripen; at fruit that goes moldy obscenely fast; at sub-standard meat.

Meeting everyone you wanted to know in the small surf industry, I saw how the surf trade was made up of characters that not only surfed, but were able to develop a business out of their relationship with their product and the ocean.

A lot of the economy is indeed being supplied by goods that are produced offshore. And much of the reason for that is societal.

Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.