Our experts and editorial standards
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One person writes this site. Two people review it, each inside a named subject area. All three work for the same company — PT Coco Reina Global Charcoal — and none of them is an outside consultant hired to lend a name to a page. This page says who they are, what they check, where our figures come from, and how often each subject gets looked at again.
How a page gets published
Author → reviewer → fact-check. The author writes it. The reviewer for that subject reads it. The fact-check is the same reviewer going back through the page against our data sheet and the primary sources, line by line.
There is deliberately no third name in that chain. A separate "fact-checker" credit is easy to print and hard to staff, and a role nobody actually fills is worth less than no role at all. Where a page carries a reviewer, that reviewer did the check.
The people
Mohamad Sinno · Charcoal Expert · PT Coco Reina Global Charcoal
Writes the specification, product and commercial pages, and answers the export desk himself.
Budi Hartanto · Shipping specialist · PT Coco Reina Global Charcoal
Reviews everything on shipping, dangerous goods, customs and the country import guides.
Budi Dharmawan · Head of QC · PT Coco Reina Global Charcoal
Reviews quality, product, production and environmental claims against the laboratory reports.
Where our figures come from
In this order, and the order is the whole policy:
- The law or the authority itself. A customs tariff read from the customs authority's own published file; a regulation read from the register that issues it; the IMDG Code's own text. Cited with the date it was read, because these move.
- The carrier's own advisory, for anything about how a shipping line treats this cargo. What a line will accept is the line's statement to make, not ours.
- Our own laboratory reports, for anything about the material — named laboratory, report number, date, and the test method as printed on the report.
And what we will not use, which matters more: freight-forwarder blogs, HS-code aggregator sites, trade-data marketplaces, and competitors' pages. Those are where most of the duty tables circulating in this trade come from, they are usually undated, and they are copied from each other. A figure that cannot be traced to the body that sets it is not a figure we will publish.
When we correct something
Regulatory pages carry the date their position was last verified. When a rule changes or we find an error, we change the page and record what moved rather than quietly editing it — the running log is at what changed in charcoal shipping regulation, and when. If you think a figure here is wrong, tell the export desk; a correction that costs us a paragraph is cheaper than a buyer acting on a bad number.
How often each subject is re-checked
| Subject | Re-checked | Owner |
|---|---|---|
| Dangerous goods and the IMDG Code | 6 months | Budi Hartanto |
| Carrier dangerous-goods policies | On carrier advisories, and at least every 6 months | Budi Hartanto |
| Country duty rates and entry procedures | 6 months | Budi Hartanto |
| EUDR | 3 months | Budi Hartanto |
| HS codes | 12 months | Budi Hartanto |
| Laboratory reports | Per batch — each COA is valid 90 days from issue | Budi Dharmawan |
| Claims about production and sustainability | On any process change | Budi Dharmawan |
A cadence with no owner is a cadence nobody runs, so every row names a person. The lab row is the odd one out on purpose: a COA describes the batch it was drawn from and is valid ninety days, so it is re-checked per batch rather than on a calendar.
The documents behind the claims
Every document we hold is listed with its number, its issuer and a way to check it — including an explicit list of what we do not hold: our document library, and how to verify each one. The company these people work for, and the operating figures it holds a record for, are on about Coco Reina: the factory, the people, the numbers.