Blue Watch
The ocean does not experience news in silos. Neither should we.
Blue Watch is Defending Blue’s weekly digest of the developments shaping maritime security, ocean sustainability, infrastructure, governance, technology, and the blue economy.
Each edition looks beyond the headline to ask how one event at sea can affect many actors differently — from navies, coast guards, and commercial operators to policymakers, scientists, coastal communities, and civil society.
The aim is not only to understand what happened, but what it reveals: who is defending what, against whom, at what cost, and with what consequences for the wider ocean system?
Who gets access - and who pays when it changes?
This week’s Blue Watch examines how disruption in the Strait of Hormuz and Black Sea is affecting seafarers, food and energy costs. It also looks at the wider question fisheries policy, climate stress, shipping finance and autonomous technology raise: who controls access to the sea, and who pays?