David was brought up in Hartlepool on the East Coast of England. It was from there that his love of ships and shipping grew as he cycled around the shipyards of Tyneside, Gateshead and Middlesbrough.
He went to university in Liverpool where there were more ships for him to spot and when the physics part of his maths degree got too much for him he found a temporary job working on the Liverpool Journal of Commerce and Sea Breezes.
His first ‘proper’ job in shipping journalism was with the Shipbuilding and Shipping Record in the early 1970s. He went on to work on Cargo Systems and in the PR department of MacGregor Hatch Covers before becoming Deputy Editor of Containerisation International.
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