Richard Fox, Director Sustainability with Flamingo Horticulture, among other things, is the new chairman of Union Fleurs, organisation for the international plant and flower trade. He’s the successor of Herman de Boon. Fox is the first non-European leader of Union Fleurs. “The fact that I’m President now is an acknowledgement of the important role that non-European countries are playing in the industry.”

At the port of Rotterdam, the biggest in the EU, the sheer scale of the bloc’s trade with the rest of the world – and the infrastructure needed to handle it – is there for all to see. But the cranes, gantries and port equipment also illustrate the challenge for the UK when it breaks with the bloc in 2019.