Editorial separation
Public briefs, member analysis, directory profiles, sponsored material, and data exports should be labelled and handled separately.
Governance
Independent, source-led, and commercially useful.
IMWO separates public information, member analysis, sponsored material, directory listings, and data products. Research notes are built around traceable sources, editorial judgement, clear confidence labels, and correction pathways.
Source discipline
Records should connect to procurement notices, planning documents, company movement, credible reporting, or marked market checks.
Corrections
Members, clients, contractors, and listed organizations can request corrections or profile review through IMWO contact channels.
Editorial trust
How IMWO protects the credibility of its records.
Marine works intelligence affects commercial decisions, reputations, and procurement planning. IMWO therefore treats source confidence, corrections, commercial separation, and recognition review as operating controls.
Editorial independence
Membership, sponsorship, advertising, directory participation, and partnerships do not control coverage, ranking, shortlist status, or recognition wording.
Correction handling
Factual corrections, profile updates, status clarifications, and additional context can be submitted through the corrections route and reviewed against supporting evidence.
Advisory model
Working groups may advise on taxonomy, technical practice, and performance evidence, but do not override editorial source review or conflict controls.
Correction and review policy
- Identify the record.Provide the page URL, record name, project, organization, or recognition case.
- State the change.Explain the factual correction, status update, attribution issue, or missing context.
- Provide evidence.Attach source links, documents, official notices, operating records, or direct stakeholder confirmation.
- Review and update.IMWO reviews the request, updates the record where appropriate, and maintains separation from commercial pressure.
Source confidence
Performance evidence levels
Performance and recognition records use a separate evidence scale so that market reports, monitoring records, shortlist cases, and recognised cases are not confused.
Review standards
Recognition review should remain separate from sponsorship, membership, advertising, directory listing, and promotional influence.