Editorial standards

1. Sourcing

Every story traces back to a named source: port authorities and terminal operators, regulators such as the IMO and the European Commission, statistical agencies, exchanges, company disclosure and established trade press. Sources carry a reliability score from 0 to 100 based on their track record, independence and proximity to the facts. Low-scoring sources cannot alone support a published story.

2. Multi-stage verification

Drafts pass through staged checks: source reliability, factual grounding of every claim against the source text, numerical and date consistency, entity and quotation accuracy, and a defamation and speculation screen. Each stage produces a score; a story only reaches publication readiness when all stages clear their thresholds.

3. No unsupported claims

We do not publish allegations, wrongdoing claims, insolvency rumours or attributed statements that are not present in the source material. Where a market view is genuinely contested, we say so and attribute both sides.

4. Editorial focus

Our coverage policy favours constructive, neutral and commercially useful news: infrastructure, investment, capacity, contracts, regulation, technology and operational milestones. This is an editorial focus, not an obligation to be optimistic — material negative developments are reported factually where they matter to the market.

5. Human oversight of AI assistance

AI is used to summarise, paraphrase and enrich attributed source material. It does not decide what is true. A human editor is accountable for every published article. Details are in our AI & content policy.

6. Corrections

Errors are corrected promptly and transparently. See our corrections policy.