“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” – Confucius

Time went by and, unlike what usually happens to most young people, his desire and enthusiasm for being a ship chandler did not fade away. It was then when he began working for his father’s company, lending a hand in everything he could: assembling, strapping and loading pallets, collecting and purchasing items from local providers, sending quotes to clients, making deliveries at whichever necessary port in Spain, Gibraltar, Portugal and Italy, compiling all the commercial and customs related documents, and so on.

Supplying a vessel implies the coordinated work of all the links in the chain, being each one of them just as important as the one before. The experience he has had in all these jobs has allowed him not only to learn how to carry out the different tasks, but also to be able to acknowledge the effort, complexity and handicaps present in each part of the process.

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

Ending his last work relationship with a company for which he had worked for the past eleven years was the boost he needed to take the next step to materialize his dream, develop his ideas and apply everything he had learnt to his own project. This is how Neptune Ship Suppliers is born.