Tag: BRIC

Siva Shipping’s Saravana Sivasankaran looked worryingly young to have his own shipping company, and he comes with another key difference: he is an outsider, with a finance and business background but no preconceptions about what shipping should and shouldn’t be.

What it should be, he explained at Nor-Shipping 2011, is better organised and operated, with far deeper connections into the country – or in his case continent – of opportunity. He is not alone in calling Africa the ‘next BRIC’ but Sivasankaran’s method seemed disarmingly simple.