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It is with great sadness that we report the death of Ian Middleton, a highly respected maritime journalist who edited the monthly Seatrade Magazine for some years before also assuming the editorship of one of shipping’s first weekly newsletters, Seatrade Week.
In addition, he also worked for a spell in Hong Kong on business development for Vokos Publishing group owner, Themistocles Vokos.
Having successfully completed a degree in anthropology at Sheffield University, Ian cut his teeth as a determined young reporter on the Sheffield Morning Telegraph in his native Yorkshire. However, it was not long before he made the not inconsiderable leap in 1976 from provincial journalism to specialist reporting on the monthly shipping business publication, Seatrade, which Vokos had established in 1970.