Gruz port

This guide to Gruz port in Dubrovnik follows the harbor from its quiet start as a Renaissance-era shipyard, building wooden vessels by hand and moving loads of Bosnian timber, into the upheaval of 1901, when the railway reached the bay and flooded it with cattle, salt cod and cargo nobody yet had anywhere to put. You'll hear about the customs officers, vets and laborers who arrived to handle the new traffic, and the port's brief stint under the Austro-Hungarian navy. Listen for how a single quay kept changing jobs without ever slowing down.