A great deal of money can be made by people willing to uproot themselves – and their families if necessary – to take advantage of the strength of the economy, and specific sectors thereof, in certain other countries. The freight ferry and freight forwarding industry is no exception.

Working as a truck or van driver used to be a reasonably steady way of ensuring a good flow of work for at least five days a week – usually allowing for at least some, if not all, weekends off – today the very fact that logistics needs to be a seven-days-a-week business means that it needs extra manpower to be able to fulfil these round-the-clock demands.