Splash 2477 Aug 2026Macro
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For centuries, the commercial appeal of the sea has rested on a simple proposition: once outside territorial waters, ships could move with comparatively few physical barriers. The oceans were the great open infrastructure of globalisation. That assumption is weakening, as many of the stories covered this week by Splash attest. The clearest example is the …