What to do with 18 shipping containers of rotting cabbages

Not many people would know what to do with 18 containers filled with rotting cabbages.

The 23-year-old founder of JS Global operates in the cargo salvage industry – a small but essential cog in the machinery of global trade.

Part of that ship’s cargo was the 18 containers, each weighing 20 tonnes, of cabbages that ended up with Mr Slinn. His Ipswich-based firm organised their delivery to an anaerobic digestion plant, where they were turned into fuel.

Cargo may need to be salvaged for a wide variety of reasons. Like the Ever Given cabbages, some…