1 351 The structure of the crew organisation was, and still is, also hierarchical. Crews were, by and large, also bigger and it was possible to allocate specific responsibilities to specific people. In many cases, this has changed. Crew come increasingly from different backgrounds and bring with them different views on both their specific job and also on the way in which a ship should be run. By and l large, ships are more complex, more specialised and more specialised and more sophisticated and this goes for many of the cargoes too. At the same time, crews have got smaller.