Shipping and Port Companies - How Do They Compare to Other Capitalist Industries?

The ownership of shipping and port companies is extraordinarily complex, intertwined in confusing ways. One of the things that's really striking about shipping companies to day is the extent to which it's dominated by family owned or private businesses. There are very few of these shipping companies that are actually on any kind of public stock market, a publicly traded stock market. And i think that's actually a really important thing to talk about when we're talking about ownership.