Sunday 19 June 2022 · below the Index · spike
World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port
A major container ship arrival at a UK port generated widespread media coverage across regional outlets on June 19, 2022. The event dominated the news cycle for the day, with the story syndicated across numerous local and national publications.
Peak 55.6 on Sunday 19 June 2022. The shaded band is the incident window.
Where the attention came from
Media-led, both over the window and on the peak day. Social here is X alone — Bluesky only joins the series from July 2024 — so its level isn't directly comparable with today's series, though its share of this incident is real.
Bar = share of the extra attention over the whole window; the tick marks the share on the peak day alone, where the two differ.
How unusual it was
This was above 46% of all days since 2020, and the highest since Friday 29 April 2022.
How far it spread
No vessel type moved — 0 of 6 vessel-type groups drew clearly more readers than usual.
Bars start at 1× — normal readership for that vessel type, the weeks before the incident. Grey = no clear lift. "Over time" shows each group's daily readers through the window; "All 12 articles" breaks the six groups back into their members.
How it was framed the frame glossary →
Lead frame: engine of trade. Trade press was 0% of in-scope coverage — the story had left the trade press and gone mainstream. (Historical coverage is scored on headlines only.)
Acting, or acted upon
In 0% of coverage shipping was the thing acted upon rather than the actor; 0% of it was strongly negative in tone.
What the coverage said
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port | Messenger Newspapersmessengernewspapers.co.uk · 2022-06-19
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK portfreepressseries.co.uk · 2022-06-19
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port | Epping Forest Guardianeppingforestguardian.co.uk · 2022-06-19
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port | Bridgwater Mercurybridgwatermercury.co.uk · 2022-06-19
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port | Barry And District Newsbarryanddistrictnews.co.uk · 2022-06-19
- World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port | Dumbarton and Vale of Leven Reporterdumbartonreporter.co.uk · 2022-06-19
Gold rule = a national or international outlet, not a trade title.
- social = X only before Bluesky (2024-07-01); not comparable with today's series
- tier C: only a Wikipedia article, GDELT sub-vocabulary term, or social per-term query fired — not yet confirmed as a real maritime incident (Phase C naming/is_maritime_incident does that).
- coverage scored on title only (no excerpt) — measured ~8pp frame precision cost vs title+excerpt (docs/HANDOVER-incidents.md §2.3)
- coverage filtered to articles matching this incident specifically (53/89 kept) — see coverage.filter.terms
Maritime Attention Index, incident: World's largest cargo ship arrives in UK port, peak 55.6 on 19 June 2022. maritimeattentionindex.com/incidents/2022-world-s-largest-cargo-ship-arrives-in-uk-port/