Richard Meade
Editor-in-Chief
Richard Meade is the Editor-in-Chief of Lloyd’s List.
He is an award-winning journalist and has been writing and talking about all aspects of the maritime industry and global trade for the past twenty years.
As Editor he is responsible for navigating The List’s subscribers through the volatile politics, policy, deals and market movements that make up nearly 90% of global trade.
He is also the host of the popular Lloyd’s List Shipping Podcast and a regular industry speaker and media commentator on all things shipping.
He joined Lloyd’s List in 2006 as News Editor after jumping ship from the weekly maritime magazine Fairplay and prior to that started his career at the Financial Times.
Latest From Richard Meade
China’s warming view of Russian gas won’t unfreeze Arctic LNG 2 problems
China’s first-ever cargo from Russia’s sanctioned Arctic LNG 2 plant last week looks like the start of a temporary unfreezing for the embattled flagship Russian Arctic LNG project. But a longer-term shift in appetite for Russian gas from Beijing will do little to thaw the overwhelmingly negative outlook for Novatek
Deglobalisation is dead. Long live globalisation
Globalisation is alive and well. It’s just evolving amid diversifying supply chains and a new world order that is less focused on the US
US bid to derail IMO net zero agreement could be backed by tariff reprisals
As part of any trade deal with the US, countries are being pushed to vote against the IMO’s net zero framework in October; a deal the US State department argues is a global carbon tax on Americans levied by an unaccountable UN organisation
Shadow fleet undeterred by Baltic enhanced surveillance and naval escorts
Shadow fleet tankers loading out of the Baltic and sailing through the English Channel are now among the most forensically monitored ships in the world, but that scrutiny has not affected traffic levels