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Not to be confused with Lloyds Bank, Lloyd's of London, or Lloyd's Register.

Lloyd's List is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. Now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 60,850 (2013). Known simply as 'The List', Lloyd's List was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House in the City of London as a reliable but terse source of information for the merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment in Lombard Street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. The newspaper survives today to fulfil a similar purpose, although its circulation is now international, both paper and web-based, and it appears daily. As well as shipping news, Lloyd's List today covers marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, global trade and law.[1] It boasts that for the shipping industry, the paper is "sometimes its conscience, too". Its timely international casualty reports, however, continue to be one of the paper's most important features, and are updated frequently in the Internet edition.

History

An early image of Edward Lloyd's Coffee House, where Lloyd's List was originally published in the 18th century.

Predecessor publications are known. One historian, Michael Palmer, claims: "No later than January 1692, Lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, ‘Ships Arrived at and Departed from several Ports of England, as I have Account of them in London... [and] An Account of what English Shipping and Foreign Ships for England, I hear of in Foreign Ports’".[2] However, claims that Lloyd's List is the oldest or second-oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. The World Association of Newspapers lists three earlier, extant titles.[3]

A copy of the 22 December 1697 edition, number 257, survives and is reproduced in McCusker, John J: "European Bills of Entry and Marine Lists: Early Commercial Publications and the Origins of the Business Press, Part II: British Marine Lists and Continental Counterparts."[4] Publication was weekly until March 1735, when it increased to semi-weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays according to Palmer. A rival "New Lloyd's List" was launched in 1769, in conjunction with the New Lloyd's Coffee House in Pope's Head Alley,[5] which, with the newspaper, evolved into the institutions known today. The paper went daily on 1 July 1837, and was published every day but Sunday. In July 1884, Lloyd's List was merged with the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette.

According to Directory of Lloyd's and London Insurance Market,[5] a publication dubbed Lloyd's News was first published by Edward Lloyd in 1696, the earliest extant copy of which is dated 1701. This source reports that The List was established as a regular weekly publication by Edward Lloyd in 1734.

In 1914 ownership of The List was transferred to the Corporation of Lloyd's, which was incorporated by an Act of Parliament in 1871. In 1973 it was transferred to a division, Lloyd's of London Press Ltd, and subject to a management buy-out in 1995 to become LLP Ltd. In 1998, LLP merged with IBC Group plc to form Informa plc, which continues to edit and publish Lloyd's List in Mortimer Street, London.

Over the years, Lloyd's List spawned several spin-off titles, including sister title Insurance Day. In 2002, a long tradition came to an end when the journal ceased to refer to ships as "she", adopting the neuter word "it" instead.

In 2009 Lloyd's List went through a major re-design that encompassed both the masthead and the newspaper itself to take advantage of its shift to the modern Berliner format.[6]

In 2013, it was announced that Lloyd's List would be available only in digital format after 20 December, after they surveyed their customers and found only 25 were using the print version only. [7]

Personnel

  • Managing Editor: Richard Meade
  • Digital Publishing Manager: Nicola Good
  • Digital Content Manager: Helen Kelly
  • Senior Reporter – Tankers: Hal Brown
  • Senior Reporter – Insurance: Liz McMahon
  • Technology Editor: Craig Eason
  • Finance Editor: David Osler
  • Greek Correspondent: Nigel Lowry
  • Digital Graphics Editor: Julian McGrath

Containers

  • Editor-in-Chief – Containers: Janet Porter
  • Editor, Containerisation International: Roger Hailey
  • Reporter, Containerisation International: Damian Brett

Asia

  • Editor-in-Chief – Asia: Tom Leander
  • Senior Reporter: Max Tingyao Lin
  • Reporter: Jing Yang

Advertising

  • Managing Director – Maritime News & Advertising: Fergus Gregory

Notes and references

  1. ^ Lloyd's List - Home
  2. ^ Lloyd's List, UK: Mariners-L.
  3. ^ Oldest newspapers still in circulation, WAN Press.
  4. ^ Harvard Library Bulletin, 31, No. 4 (Fall 1983), p. 318, Fig. 5.
  5. ^ a b Directory of Lloyd's of London; Sturge, Charles and Carruthers, Oliver, eds. 1996, Chatset & Ocarina Publishing, ISBN 0-9511116-9-8
  6. ^ Re-design the daily newspaper Lloyd's List, including new masthead, Bloodybigspider.
  7. ^ BBC News - 279-year-old Lloyd's List newspaper goes digital

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