Europort opened on Tuesday at the grand Rotterdam Ahoy comparing today’s world with the ‘Roaring Twenties’ which, while they offered ‘a sea of opportunities’, the argument went, were also a time of turbulence and renewal.

Sustainability is experiencing something of its own transition this year, with a lot of emphasis on ‘circularity’ – indeed, a ‘Circular Route’ to showcase 14 companies doing what they can to re-use, expand or simply make things last longer has been organised this year for the first time.