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An influential player who worked her way up to the top.
(From Lloyds List)
FOREIGN languages are a cult in Marygrace Collins' family. Four of the seven siblings, three brothers and a sister, graduated from the tony Georgetown University School of Language and Linguistics in Washington DC.
Two brothers majored in Russian, and the other two siblings including Ms Collins in Portuguese. Little was she to know when she started her career in the 1970s that this admirable family quirk would make her an influential player in the maritime world.
Fresh out of college, she chanced upon a company in New York that was looking for a secretary who could speak Portuguese. The company was Companhia Vale do Rio Doce, the Brazilian mining group that owned Docenave at the time.
'I got the feeling that the executives in New York wanted someone who could understand the telexes from our global locations that came through every day. Maybe they wanted to make sure nothing was being said about them,' she says, tongue firmly in cheek.
This secretarial start in shipping proved fortuitous. She was hired away by the New York office of Solmar Chartering, a Brazilian operator, where Gordon Bruce mentored her into a chartering executive. This led to her being hired by Caemi, the Brazilian mining and iron ore group, in ...
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