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OCEAN CAPITAL
by OCEAN CAPITAL
KMKT IR Hub Radio. Zach Martin solo on the ocean as a balance sheet: ports, cables, shipping, blue finance, and shoreline infrastructure.
Episodes
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Ocean Capital: Breaking Down the Blue Finance Balance Sheet
Host Zach Martin breaks down the balance sheet of the global ocean economy, analyzing massive annual funding gaps and declining development assistance. Explore why critical shoreline infrastructure struggles for capital while trillions flow into nature-negative subsidies.
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Ocean Capital: The Shoreline Plumbing of Blue Finance
Host Zach Martin breaks down the critical infrastructure behind the sustainable blue economy, moving beyond conference pledges to explore the ports, subsea cables, and capital flows shaping coastal nations like Sierra Leone.
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Blue Balance Sheets: Closing the Global Ocean Finance Gap
Host Zach Martin examines the massive gap in sustainable ocean finance and why critical marine assets remain underfunded worldwide. Using Sierra Leone's vulnerability as a key case study, the episode breaks down how debt swaps, outcomes-based bonds, and redirecting harmful subsidies can turn the...
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Wet Acreage and the Blue Economy Funding Gap
Zach Martin examines the massive funding gap facing the global ocean economy as traditional development aid declines. Using Sierra Leone's vulnerable maritime and digital infrastructure as a case study, this episode explores what it takes to turn wet acreage into productive, investable reality....
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Blue Finance: Turning Ocean Potential into Investable Assets
Zach Martin examines how blue finance is shifting from early pilot projects to a standardized global market. Focus on Sierra Leone reveals how essential infrastructure, regulatory rulebooks, and pipeline plumbing transform ocean rights into investable assets. Show Notes [PDF] ministry of...
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Ocean Finance, Hidden Infrastructure, and the Blue Bond
This episode follows the money behind ocean finance, from UNCLOS rights and blue economy estimates to the hidden infrastructure that turns seawater into bankable assets. It breaks down the Seychelles blue bond, de-risking tools, and why Sierra Leone shows the gap between policy ambition and real...
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Freetown’s Quay: How Sierra Leone Monetized the Shoreline
This episode follows Sierra Leone’s shift from a state-run port system to a landlord model, showing how long leases and private operators turned Freetown’s shoreline into a financial asset. Along the way, we examine the legal and economic power of quays, natural harbors, and port chokepoints—from...
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The Ocean as a Balance Sheet
We unpack how UNCLOS carves the ocean into legal zones and why that matters for who captures value from fish, energy, cables, and offshore structures. Using Sierra Leone as a case study, the episode turns maritime rights into a business question about assets, access, and unrealized offshore revenue.
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Why the Internet Runs on Undersea Cables
This episode breaks down the hidden infrastructure of submarine cables, from the physics of fiber optics and repeaters to the legal rules that govern who can lay cables in a country’s waters. Using Sierra Leone as a case study, it explores why a single landing point can make national connectivity...
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