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
The rise and fall of Gabon’s shadow fleet ship register
Gabon has severed ties with sanctioned ship registry operator Intershipping Services, ending the relationship that briefly turned the west African state into one of the shadow fleet’s fastest-growing flags and a favoured haven for vessels linked to Russian oil trades
Gulf states race to make Hormuz less relevant
The latest Iran-Hormuz crisis has accelerated gulf states’ efforts to build pipelines, ports and rail links that bypass the world’s most important oil chokepoint, reshaping regional trade flows and potentially altering tanker demand for decades
Hormuz traffic reduced to a trickle of dark transits as Iran threatens pipeline oil flows
Shipowners are retreating into dark transits as renewed US-Iran hostilities choke traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, raising fears that Tehran could expand its campaign beyond shipping to target the gulf’s critical oil export infrastructure.