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
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
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’
Fake flags flow through Baltic as an uneasy stand-off continues
Baltic states wanted to stop falsely flagged ships from passing through European waters, but that plan has been overtaken by stalled politics and Russian escalation, leaving an uneasy stalemate as Nato watches the ships routinely pass by uninterrupted and undeterred