Leading Italian shipbroker Aldo Frullo has died, aged 78.

The veteran shipbroker was the founder of Naples-based Unitramp Shipbrokers.

He remained chief executive and ran the firm together with his son and general manager, Vincenzo Frulio.

Frulio’s death was announced in a tribute on Unitramp’s LinkedIn page, where he was praised as “the most extraordinary of leaders and at the same time a father”.