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“‘God must be a shipowner’ is a popular saying among those in the shipping industry,” says Martin Kuznik, global head of ship financing at HSH Nordbank, the Hamburg-based bank that is the world’s leading ship financer. “The shipping industry is at the heart of globalization. Just look at where on the globe the growing manufacturing economies are, look where all the raw materials are located and look where the final goods are consumed.

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