The Guide is by its own description "America's Oldest Daily Shipping Paper" (15 pages with insert), includes information about vessel movements and voyages by company, plus an insert of 48 pages that chronicles 100 years of shipping companies history and general maritime news. The insert includes a short article entitled San Francisco Bay Ferries that describes the final day (July 29, 1958) of Southern Pacific's San Francisco Bay Ferry service, includes information about the Maritime Museum of San Diego's 1898 steam ferry Berkeley.