FROM HIS OFFICE on the sixty-ninth floor of the Empire State Building, John Beckert, president of Cognotec, looked out over New York harbour. “I was transfixed,” he says. “The Queen Mary 2 was turning out of her berth, and it was so incredibly slow. In the end I had to tear myself away and go home for some dinner.”
Moving 150,000 tons of ocean liner in a confined space is an immensely challenging task.
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