Editorial Policy

Blue Ocean Chartering publishes constructive, commercially useful coverage of commodity, energy, oil, fuel oil, shipping and logistics markets. This policy sets out how stories are selected, verified, attributed and corrected.

Last updated: September 2026

What we publish

We cover business growth, investment, new projects and vessels, terminals and infrastructure, partnerships, financing, contracts, technology, efficiency and sustainability initiatives, operational milestones, market developments, industry events and executive appointments.

We prioritise developments that help professional readers make commercial sense of their market. We do not publish stories whose primary purpose is to generate search traffic.

What we do not publish

We do not knowingly publish defamatory claims. We do not publish allegations, accusations, rumours, gossip or unverified claims about companies or individuals.

Source material containing materially negative allegations, legal disputes, criminal allegations, serious operational failures or other high-risk claims is routed to human review and is not published automatically.

We never rewrite a negative story as positive news, and we never adjust facts to make a development appear more favourable than the source supports.

Verification

Every item is tied to a named, retrievable source. Before publication our verification engine scores source reliability, source accessibility, factual consistency against the source, duplication, editorial quality, image confidence and defamation risk.

Publication is blocked automatically where the source cannot be verified, where claims conflict with the source, where unsupported claims or allegations are detected, where quotations cannot be validated, or where the text is too close to the original.

We do not claim absolute or guaranteed credibility. We operate a multi-stage process designed to achieve the highest practical level of factual reliability, and we correct errors promptly.

Attribution

Each article names its original source and, where appropriate, links to the original announcement. Source information is never hidden or obscured.

We do not reproduce source text. Articles are original editorial summaries written in our own words that preserve the factual meaning of the source.

Corrections

If you believe an article contains an error, use our corrections form. We assess every request, correct confirmed errors and note material corrections on the article.