Vessel Hunter News
How our news is made
Vessel Hunter News covers commercial shipping through the vessels and ports it concerns: incidents, detentions, sales, sanctions and port activity. This page says where the stories come from, how they are written and checked, and how to get a mistake fixed.
Where the news comes from
Maritime trade press, industry newsletters and, wherever one exists, the primary document behind a story: an accident investigation report, a port state control record, a circular from a maritime authority, a court filing or a company's own statement. When a story rests on such a document, the article links to it.
We do not copy articles. Facts are taken from the source and written in our own words; quotation marks are used only around words that appear in the source exactly as quoted.
How it is written
Articles are drafted with AI, a language model working to fixed editorial rules: nothing that is not in the source (no invented numbers, ship names, dates or quotes), a dry trade-press tone, and a link to every vessel and port we have a page for, so a story and the ships in it point at each other.
How it is checked
Before an article is published it passes an automated quality check: length, sourcing, the links it carries and may not carry, and its structure. An article that fails is not published. The articles are not edited line by line by a person before they go live, which is why these rules are enforced by software rather than left to judgement, and why we correct quickly when something is wrong.
Corrections
Spotted a mistake? Email contact@vesselhunter.io with the article and what is wrong. We correct the article, or take it down if it cannot be fixed.
Who is responsible
Vessel Hunter News is published by Vessel Hunter, which is responsible for everything that appears on it. The registered details are on the imprint.