About

The Maritime Attention Index answers the question "how much attention is the world actually paying to shipping?"

Maritime coverage reports tell you what editors published. The Index tells you what the public did — what they searched, watched and looked up — scored daily against every day since January 2020. When shipping breaks into public consciousness (a blocked canal, a bridge, a strait under threat), the Index shows exactly how much people are engaging, and when attention fades, it shows that too.

The fortnightly edition is the analysis layer on top: the number, what moved it, the stories that drove it, and — crucially — how those stories were framed for the general public. It is written for people who want to know what the world is seeing: communicators, executives, analysts and journalists in and around the maritime industry.

The editor

The Index is compiled and edited by Dustin Eno, a crisis communications specialist who has spent his career at the intersection of shipping and public opinion — advising shipowners, operators and insurers through the incidents that put the industry on the front page. The Index began as an internal tool for answering clients' common question — "how big is this, really?"

Independence

The Index measures attention from public data sources. Methodology v1.0 is public and frozen; changes are versioned and announced.

Contact

Questions about a reading, requests for the underlying data, corrections, or press enquiries: editor@maritimeattentionindex.com. Journalists are welcome to quote the Index — please see the methodology first, and note that the full daily series is published as JSON.