Like ships\nplying the trade routes, emotions take us from one continent to another. The\nyear 2020 was a breaking point. The pandemic swallowed up our world, the former\nopen world. The explosion of digital communications, electronic messages and\nvideo conferences and the imposition of preventive measures and social\ndistancing have created abyssal fractures in human relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is\ndifficult to imagine going back to a past time. Once the shock of the first\nmonths had passed, the pandemic rolled on relentlessly. Emotions were confined\nas months passed. At Marfret, we could not get used to carrying out our\nshipping business without the contact with others, with the foreigner for whom\nwe carry essential and non-essential goods. The meeting of ship and quayside has\nan almost sacred quality at port call, the ship\u2019s rendezvous with its cargo. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Once the\ngoods are on board, the ship leaves the coast behind, the separation is\ncomplete. The land-dwelling consumers erase the weeks at sea from their minds,\nin denial of the whole maritime adventure. Containers do not teleport\nthemselves along submarine cables just yet! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our everyday heroes, the personnel on shore and crews onboard ship have never failed. Together they have made sure departures, arrivals, port calls and sailing frequencies all went to schedule. We at Marfret do not believe our job merely consists of transporting goods from A to B in a mechanical, functional way -goods that, paradoxically, have never been so plentiful since the end of 2020. This measure of emotion, close to our hearts and upon which all human activity is founded, at Marfret we find it in our work with artists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n