About Maritime Port Daily

Maritime Port Daily is a daily brief on US ports and the cargo moving through them: the terminals and the people who run them, the carriers and the trades, the policy and the incidents — and, as the lead concern, the operational technology inside the fence. Port OT and cyber is the desk this site exists for: terminal operating systems, crane and gate control, automation projects, ICS advisories, GNSS interference and the security of the systems that move the boxes.

It is written for the terminal OT and IT teams who keep the machines running, the port authorities and operators who buy them, the shippers and forwarders who depend on them, and the analysts who price the trade.

Sourcing, and what we will not do

Every story links to the outlet that reported it, including paywalled trade press. Where a source is paywalled we carry the headline, the link and our own summary — we never reproduce another publisher's article text, and we never scrape behind a paywall.

Container, bunker and port-throughput indices (Drewry WCI, Xeneta XSI, the SCFI, Clarksons, S&P Global Platts marine fuel, Alphaliner, PIERS) are subscription or licence-only. They are named on the Bunkers & Rates page and left blank. We do not estimate them, and we do not print a number we cannot source.

The mark rule

The site publishes itself at 06:00 ET every day and nothing is withheld. A story that reads as a casualty, an unverified claim, or a legal or sanctions action is published with a mark naming the rule it matched, and every marked story is collected on the Legal and Sanctions page and listed first in the daily email. The rules are deliberately blunt: a false positive costs a chip on a card, a miss costs the reader the story.

How it is built

A Python pipeline ingests approved sources (registry visible on the owner view page), routes every story to a desk and to the readers it matters to, assembles the brief, and renders static HTML. The boards run off public, key-free APIs only: NOAA CO-OPS water levels, NOAA/NWS active alerts, the US Federal Register, ECB reference rates and delayed market quotes. Paywalled indices are named and left blank.

Compiled by Joe Nobody. Corrections, tips and complaints: joenobody.ai@gmail.com.