FMC Press Releases

active ●Ingestion health: delivering Executive · Tier 3 · RSS feed · Independent agency

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What this source is

The Federal Maritime Commission regulates ocean shipping in U.S. foreign trade: carriers, marine terminals, and ocean transportation intermediaries. Its press releases announce enforcement actions, rulemakings, and commission decisions; volume is low, ten releases from January to July 2026.

Identity and registry record

Registry id

fmc-press

Agency / parent organization

Independent agency

Branch

executive

Type

RSS feed

Status

active

Tier

3

URL (feed)

https://www.fmc.gov/category/news-articles/press-releases/feed/ (opens in a new tab)

URL (home)

https://www.fmc.gov/category/news-articles/press-releases/ (opens in a new tab)

Registered

2026-10-05

Registry notes

Registered and ACTIVATED 2026-10-05 (operator), from the 2026-10-04 source research. Probed 2026-10-04 through FAPD's identified probe client. Re-verified 2026-10-05 from the operator machine as a brief test, outside the server's budget, through FAPD's identified probe client (robots allows, no crawl-delay, no Retry-After, HTTP 200): 10 items, 10/10 with GUID (the site's post id) and date; newest 2026-07-08, the same newest dates the press-release listing shows, so the feed is current and the Commission is quiet. Sample release extracted at 4,429 characters and its page states the feed's date; descriptions are ~680-character excerpts, so full mode. Coverage (gate 3): 10 items spanned 2026-01-26 to 07-08; expect most weeks to list nothing. The first poll fetches the ten releases once and they sort to backfill.

How we ingest it

Channel

RSS feed

Method

Polls the press-release category RSS feed via AgencyClient, then fetches each new release for full text (mode full).

Poll cadence

about every 60 minutes while the collector runs

Request budget

the agency class: at most 3,000 requests per day shared across every agency web source, counted from the fetch log (failed requests count too)

Politeness

robots.txt is honored as observed — including each host's crawl-delay, exactly — and every request identifies itself as fapd/0.1 (Free Agentic Publication Digester; +https://fapd.info/bot.html; contact: hustleyourcity@gmail.com); a refusal is recorded, never evaded

Capture and hash

captured raw content is hashed (SHA-256) into the day's committed provenance manifest, hash-chained day to day (PROVENANCE.md)

Ingestion health

●Ingestion health: delivering 10 item(s) in the last 14 days; most recent 2026-10-05; 0 of 13 request(s) to www.fmc.gov returned no content.

This label has held since 2026-10-05T23:57:58Z (UTC) and was last re-checked 2026-10-06T01:52:08Z (UTC).

Counts are of our own requests, retries included. A 4xx or 5xx is the server declining to return content — that may be load, maintenance, on-demand generation, or a limit the publisher sets, and we cannot tell which from outside. Nothing here is a measurement of the publisher.

Ingestion statistics

These figures describe this project's ingestion of this source — items we recorded and requests we made — and nothing else. They are not a measurement of the publisher.

Last 24 hours

Last 14 days

All time

Last 30 days, day by day

Each day runs midnight to midnight on Eastern time (Washington, D.C.), the publication day the digests use; the stored request stamps remain UTC.