You can familiarize yourself with any subject by reading. Werner Stengg is convinced of that – and has proven it. „Some people laughed and asked why someone from a landlocked country like Austria was suddenly dealing with maritime transport,“ Stengg recalls of his first job at the Council in Brussels. On his missions to London, he says, all the officials were former captains. „As a Styrian and a skier, I sat in the middle of sea dogs.“