Editors’ Kudos and How We Do It

With 15% more companies ranked this year than last, Marine Money is proud to report that its annual ranking issue now includes all significant publicly traded maritime shipping companies around the globe.

Not only are most companies present and accounted for, but the analysis used to rank the companies is more consistent and foolproof than ever before – creating a more usable and more valuable product for our readers, whether they are institutional or individual investors, bankers or shipowners themselves.

One can imagine how difficult it is to rank the list of related but diverse companies from several dozen countries, with nearly as many disparate accounting methods. It begs the question: how is ranking possible without manipulation tantamount to wizardry?

To answer this, we consulted Marine Money’s contributing editor John Henry Auran, who is principally responsible for the Marine Money International Financial Database and who works on the September ranking issue for the better part of a year. He reported that nothing akin to wizardry is employed.

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