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The Globalist, episode 363
After the surrender of wanted war criminal Bosco Ntaganda, we ask what are the next steps? We also look at China's access to Arctic shipping routes, and hear from San Francisco about plans to rename a street presently named…
Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for the first on our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the "diplomatic pouch", that slightly quaint method of shipping secret documents.
Business / Management
The ice man
Finland’s icebreakers are crucial for keeping the Baltic Sea navigable and its ports open. Captain Tommy Berg is at the helm of the MSV Fennica. He says keeping the ship on the right course is ultimately a team effort.
Affairs / Crime
On the hook
The world’s shipping is being held to ransom by a band of Somali pirates in battered launches. As yet another new president tries to take control of the failed state, perhaps it’s time we stopped playing nice and took…
Business / Innovation
Germany's Bottle Bank
Germany is the eighth biggest exporter of wine, shipping 280 million litres in 2005; but it’s also the world’s largest importer of wine, buying 1.19 billion litres the same year. Like France, the country has struggled…
Affairs / Society
Rock the Basra
Iraq has plans to build a shipping route that’s a cheaper alternative to the Suez Canal, starting with a port just south of Basra. It’s the biggest project ever undertaken by Iraq but will the war-ravaged city’s residents…
Business / Industry
Back on the radar
Spanish shipbuilders have seen out the storms and now, thanks to booming global demand, their order books are full. But as the yards launch ships for the Australian navy and the world’s biggest dredgers, could the tide turn…
Edits / Craft
Expo 32: Life in miniature
In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood – creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes and shrunken ships in order to secure big budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets…
Design / Interior design
Life in miniature
In studios around the world, they sit with scalpels, glue and balsa wood, creating everything from mini cities to pint-sized planes and shrunken ships in order to secure big budgets to build the real thing. Monocle meets…
Edits / Retail
Straat wise
Antwerp scores highest in the ‘most attractive and interesting city in Belgium’ category. Maybe it has something to do with the dock-lined River Scheldt that gives towering container ships access to the Port of Antwerp –…
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Monday 15 November
Piracy – a land-based problem
Paul and Rachel Chandler, a British couple kidnapped by Somali pirates while sailing their yacht in the Indian Ocean, were released yesterday after just over a year in captivity.
Affairs / Transport
Monocolumn
Monday 29 April
Power in numbers
While popular political debate in the US can at times seems trite, a short journey south to Panama reveals a well-informed population
Affairs / Crime
Monocolumn
Friday 4 February
Pressure builds to fight the pirates
The International Maritime Organization (IMO) yesterday launched its global initiative to “orchestrate the response” to piracy.
Business / Transport
Contain yourself
The Nieuwe Waterweg in Rotterdam is Europe’s main port and the world’s fifth-largest, employing 58,000 people. The Europe Container Terminal (ECT), owned by Hong Kong-based Hutchinson Port Holdings Group, was built here in…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 9 October
China’s submarine technology creeps up on the West
China’s latest submarine was unveiled with little fanfare at a shipyard in Wuhan last month.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Wednesday 17 August
China and Russia launch powerful PR weapons
Any day now, China will launch the first aircraft carrier in its Navy’s history.
Affairs / Defence
Fly the flag
Despite the pressures of new technology in its own ranks and a fast-developing Chinese navy sailing into view, the ‘USS George Washington’ continues to rule the Asia-Pacific seas. Monocle climbs aboard the American aircraft…
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Monday 17 December
Keeping the peace isn’t plain sailing
At some point between Israel’s autumn strike on Hamas’ top man in Gaza and the later launch into orbit of a rocket from Kim Jong Un, an event in other coordinates riled politicians into jingoistic fervour.
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…