Business / Luxury
MIPIM and Cruise Shipping
Monocle hops from the property fair in Cannes to the cruise show in Miami.
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Business / Travel
Monocolumn
Friday 22 March
Time for some cruise control
With a focus on quantity not quality and some high-profile safety embarrassments, the cruise line industry needs to get back to being ship shape.
Business / Innovation
Buoyed up
The world’s second largest container transporter, the Mediterranean Shipping Company, has managed to sidestep the global slump in trade by diversifying into pleasure cruises.
Edits / Society
Monocolumn
Sunday 26 August
Remembering the past requires respect
Scattered around the cities, towns, villages and hamlets of Great Britain and most of Europe, sit memorials to those who gave their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
Culture / Entertainment
Show starters
Worth billions but well below the radar; big in China but overlooked in London; consummately professional but often part-time – the lounge act is a fascinating and uncharted universe. Monocle explores an undervalued talent…
Business / Entrepreneurialism
Pleasure as business
Since his appointment as CEO of MSC’s pleasure cruise business five years ago, Pierfrancesco Vago has seen passenger numbers rocket. Here, he explains what makes his company revolutionary and outlines his predictions for…
Affairs / Defence
Liberty Belle
On deployment far from its home port of San Diego, the diminutive USS Freedom carries far greater weight than its size suggests: as the apex of US naval technology, its success or failure will decide the future of American…
Edits / Business Hubs
Expo 22: Ship wrecked
Viking line’s M/S Gabriella and M/S Mariella ply the route between Helsinki and stockholm daily. Except for some backpackers getting cheaply from a to b, the 48-hour round trip is used for one chief purpose: the intensive…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 28 September
Party animals
Beijing will play host to an emphatic demonstration of China’s growing military power on Thursday when a panoply of new military hardware is unveiled at this year’s National Day parade, marking the 60th anniversary of the…
Affairs / Economics
Briefing Oceania
Australia's economy is all at sea; plus conflict on happy island.
Affairs / Society
Little Britain
For the first in a new series on outposts of opportunity we visit Stanley, capital of the Falkland Islands, the British territory best known for sheep and its 1982 war with Argentina. Now oil and tourists are making this…
Affairs / Politics
Briefing Africa/Middle East
Summer is cancelled again in Beirut and pirates ahoy off Africa.
Affairs / Politics
Asia Briefing
Japan's dapper finance minister is style leader this issue. Plus elections in Cambodia and cruising around Asia.
Affairs / Urbanism
Asia briefing
Michelin judges Tokyo a gourmet's delight, Taiwan's weapons programme, and the beautification of Seoul.
Edits / Travel
Expo 46: Boat people
The ship that leaves from South Africa for St Helena has a practical purpose – it’s the only means of reaching the isolated island. But the ‘RMS St Helena’ is also a place where time stands still – harking back to the…
Edits / Travel
Expo 04: Invader on the Horizon
Since the 1970s, Mykonos has been on the list of summer destinations for the sun-seeking elite and gay party boys. Today it is smarter than ever, with new five-star hotels, a seasonal Nobu and berths for the grandest yachts…
Affairs / Government
Revving up Germany
He believes in playing classical music as a way to prevent road rage and he understands that better transport solutions mean a higher quality of life. Meet Peter Ramsauer, Germany’s minister of transportation, construction…