Sources and methods

The news summaries published by milesandpallets are compiled from a curated list of established trade publications and news agencies covering the Asia region. These sources report on logistics, shipping, and international trade. The site monitors published feeds and indexes from these outlets, selecting stories relevant to the core subject: the trade lane and what it costs to move a box along it today. Each selected article is processed with automated assistance to extract its key factual claims regarding rates, capacity, disruptions, or regulatory changes. This distilled summary is then rewritten into a plain, standalone update. Every summary clearly credits the original publication from which the information was sourced.

When a factual claim, such as a specific freight rate or the closure of a port, appears in only one monitored publication, it is treated as a single-source report. The summary will state this fact as being reported by that single outlet. This transparency allows users to gauge the verification level of the information. Stories corroborated by multiple independent publications are noted as such, providing a higher degree of factual confidence.

The site’s reference pages, such as those for a specific Port or Carrier, are built differently from news summaries. They are constructed from stable, widely-recognised facts, such as a port’s location, a carrier’s fleet size, or a trade lane’s major endpoints. These pages feature a concise facts table for key data and are accompanied by a credited, licenced photograph. Their purpose is to provide enduring context for the more fluid news coverage.

All content on milesandpallets is subject to scheduled review. The news section is refreshed daily as new information is published by the source outlets. The reference pages are reviewed and updated on a less frequent, cyclical basis to incorporate significant, sustained changes to the facts they present, ensuring they remain accurate foundations for understanding the market.