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Editorial policy
Editorial policy
What we publish, how we verify it, and the limits we place on ourselves.
Purpose
Cargo Bridge Shipping exists to give shipowners, charterers and shipbrokers a reliable, readable account of commercially relevant developments. Usefulness to the reader comes before volume, and before search performance.
Editorial positioning
We concentrate on constructive and neutral developments: investment, infrastructure, contracts, technology, efficiency, market structure, appointments and operational milestones. This is an editorial choice about what we cover, not a licence to distort. We never reframe negative material as positive, and we never manipulate facts to make a story look better than it is.
What we do not publish
Allegations, accusations, rumour or gossip
Unverified claims about companies or individuals
Defamatory statements of any kind
Invented facts, quotations, statistics or sources
Misleading headlines that overstate what the source supports
Source material containing materially negative allegations, legal or criminal claims, or serious operational failures is routed to human review and is not published through any automated path.
Verification
Each article is scored before publication against source reliability, source accessibility, factual consistency with the source, duplication, editorial quality and defamation risk. An article that fails any hard check is blocked from automatic publication and queued for an editor. We describe this as a high standard of practical reliability; we do not claim absolute or guaranteed accuracy, and no publication honestly can.
Attribution
We treat feeds and third-party reporting as discovery input, not as copy. Articles are original summaries that preserve factual meaning, and each one names its source and links to it where appropriate. See our image and content attribution policy.
Independence
Commercial relationships do not influence editorial selection or wording. Any sponsored or promotional material will be labelled as such and kept visually distinct from editorial.
Corrections
We correct errors promptly and record what changed. See our corrections policy.