Bridget Diakun
Senior Risk and Compliance Analyst, Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Bridget Diakun joined Lloyd’s List Intelligence in January 2022 as a data journalist. She initially worked on understanding the impact that the war in Ukraine had on commercial shipping in the Black and Caspian seas.
In 2023, she was named 'Multimedia Journalist of the Year' by the Seahorse Freight Association for her extensive investigation into the trade out of the occupied ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk.
Now Lloyd’s List’s senior risk and compliance analyst, Bridget focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and commercial shipping. She assesses the impact of conflict on seaborne trade, how the maritime industry adapts to sanctions and investigates tactics used by vessels to disguise illicit activities.
Latest From Bridget Diakun
Timor-Leste joins rapidly growing market of fake registries taking in sanctioned tonnage
Timor-Leste, Asia’s youngest democracy, has just joined the rapidly expanding list of unwitting governments being used by fraudsters as a front for entirely fake shipping registries employed by sanctioned ships engaging in high-risk clandestine trades
Red Sea traffic dips after volatile June
The lowest weekly number of transits through the Bab el Mandeb since the start of the crisis was recorded last month after Israel’s attack on Iran
Shadow fleet scrutiny thought to be behind English Channel diversions
Germany says that enhanced surveillance and repeated requests for documentation is ‘increasing the pressure on the Russian shadow fleet and protecting the Baltic Sea habitat’
MSC ship sails through Bab el Mandeb for first time since Red Sea exodus
MSC Antonia, which ran aground off Jeddah in May, has become the first MSC-operated vessel in 18 months to transit the Bab el Mandeb. The voyage may not signal MSC’s return to regular Red Sea routing, but is a further notable test case amid maritime security concerns
US lifts sanctions on occupied territory callers while ending Syria restrictions
In terminating the Syria sanctions programme, the US Treasury has revoked restrictions on three vessels with a history of exporting cargo from Russia-occupied Crimea
Nakhodka Bay becomes new STS hub for sanctions-skirting tankers
Sanctioned tankers are conducting ship-to-ship transfers so ‘clean’ vessels can deliver shipments from Russia’s Far East ports