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Bay watch
The Ocean State has become a hub for defence businesses that are helping to lift its economy out of the red and into the blue.
Plucky upstart
While Croatia has experienced a tourism boom, its third-largest city has forged its own unique path, building on its coastal location and can-do attitude to welcome a wave of businesses – big and small.
Time and tide
An app that tracks the status of ocean-going vessels worldwide, MarineTraffic uses a network of 3,000 ship spotters to gather its maritime data.
Collecting
Drop anchor for seaside sales and collectors from the Italian Riviera to Newport Beach.
Shipping families
The big names of the world’s oceans tend to keep it in the family – we meet the generational giants.
Tides of war
It’s all hands on deck as we find out why so many international altercations are happening at sea.
Shore thing
London is home to the UN’s International Maritime Organization headquarters. Along the Thames, a host of maritime architecture is revealed, from modern HQs to historic seafarers' churches. Monocle explores these shipshape buildings.
Reportage: Captains of industry
Greece’s maritime tradition is keeping the country afloat. Monocle drops anchor at the naval academies on Hydra and in Piraeus, where a new generation of sailors are being educated for a life at sea.
Buoyancy aid
OSM, a Norwegian company, supplies the crews and captains you need for your tanker (or Boeing).
Expo 68: Life at sea
Alaska’s 50-year-old, state-run ferry system is not a profit-maker. But for the people who use it, it is as important as the police or fire service. Monocle climbs aboard.
