How worried should you be about the orderbook?
Container shipping’s orderbook looks significant, tanker contracting is rising again and dry bulk is becoming more top-heavy — but Lloyd’s L...
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The vessel performance data you can't afford to get wrong
Data lies behind virtually all decisions and calculations related to vessel performance, yet errors can easily creep in, says Selin Sari, a...
How healthy is the marine insurance market?
Record premiums, softening rates and war risk dominated debate at IUMI 2026, and Lloyd’s List’s marine insurance editor David Osler was ther...
Plan ahead for responsible AI adoption, says Veson Nautical’s CTO
Any company planning to incorporate AI into its operations should start with a clear plan and set of objectives, Ben Thurecht, chief technol...
Do you take weather risk seriously? Part Two
WEATHER risk is increasing for shipping. In part one of this episode, we highlighted some particular hotspots to watch out for in the near-t...
Unlocking port performance: rethinking capability, infrastructure and towage operations
As chief executive of international towage and marine services company Svitzer, Kasper Friis Nilaus has identified opportunities to improve...
Do you take weather risk seriously? Part One
This episode of the Lloyd’s List Podcast is brought to you by Veson ASK the compliance team of a major shipping company what the biggest ris...
Is Somali piracy back?
This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Veson. To find out more visit www.veson.com FIFTEEN years ago, Somali piracy w...
Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports 2026: Why resilience beats scale
In previous editions of the Lloyd’s List Top 100 Container Ports, scale has been king. The more boxes you can handle, the higher up the rank...
How International Seaways navigates today’s historic tanker markets
This episode of the Lloyd’s List podcast is brought to you by Wirana THERE is plenty of risk in the tanker market today. The Strait of Hormu...
Unchanged Gulf situation hampers recycling market
This episode is brought to you by Wirana This second episode of a year-long series by the Middle East Vice President and Green Recycling Coo...
Strait of Hormuz: Where are the off ramps coming from?
SHIPOWNERS have stopped asking when the strait of Hormuz is going to open. Instead, they’re asking if it will open by the end of the year, o...
Is the container the most important invention of the last 100 years?
IN 1956 the SS Ideal X sailed from New Jersey to Houston with 58 containers on board, marking the birth of modern commercial container shipp...
Three conflicts converge: what does that mean for tanker rates?
SHIPPING is attempting to navigate three distinct, but increasingly overlapping conflicts at present. The resumption of Houthi violence in t...
Are the EU ETS revisions fair?
IT’S been years of waiting and lobbying, but we finally have Europe’s proposals for how the EU Emissions Trading System will look beyond 203...
The Houthis are back: what next for shipping?
SHIPPING has another hotspot to worry about, and it’s a familiar one. Reports that the Houthis were preparing to attack commercial shipping...
The short life of General License X
LESS than a month after its introduction, the US revoked General License X, the waiver allowing the sale and transport of Iranian oil grante...
The new shipbuilding supercycle: Cyclical upswing or structural shift?
The new shipbuilding supercycle: Cyclical upswing or structural shift? by Lloyd's List
Day of the Seafarer 2026: Lessons learned from Hormuz
To mark 2026’s Day of the Seafarer, this edition of the Lloyd’s List podcast asks what shipping has learned from the Strait of Hormuz crisis...
Recycling values are high, but Gulf situation is pivotal
It is a seller’s market at the moment in the ship recycling sector, thanks to a shortage of tonnage. But Hitesh Vyas of the Singapore-based...