Lloyd’s List Editorial team…
Richard Meade is the Editor of Lloyd’s List and has been writing about all aspects of the maritime industry for the past decade.
He has travelled extensively in search of shipping news – from the shipyards of South Korea to pirate infested waters off Somalia – and has developed a specialist expertise in the international politics and finance which the steer the business of shipping from the boardrooms to the United Nations.
Janet Porter is the chief correspondent of Lloyd’s List. She joined Lloyd’s List in 1997 and specialises in coverage of the container shipping trades. This traditionally has been regarded as the dull and steady sector of the industry, but in fact has lurched from crisis to crisis over the past decade, providing a never-ending stream of material for news stories, features, analyses and leader columns.
Janet also has travelled extensively for the paper and won several journalism awards.
Michelle Wiese Bockmann is Lloyd’s List’s markets editor, based in London. She has covered shipping in the Americas, Asia and Europe focusing on markets, business and regulatory sectors of the global industry. Michelle began her career in journalism in Adelaide, Australia and has worked in newspaper, radio and television newsrooms. She joined the Lloyd’s List team in 2007.
Steve Matthews is shipping economics editor and ship management editor for Lloyd’s List.
Since 2001 he has been editor of Lloyd’s Shipping Economist magazine, which is now available monthly in a PDF format.
He is also editor of Lloyd’s List Ship Manager, a bi-monthly supplement to Lloyd’s List. Steve was editor of its forerunner Lloyd’s Ship Manager magazine from 1995 to 2001.
Gavin van Marle has been senior reporter at Lloyd’s List since the beginning of 2010. He joined after a two-year period as editor of sister publication International Freighting Weekly, during which he was runner-up of the Seahorse Journalist of the Year award and then winner in consecutive years. Prior to that, he was editor of another informa maritime title, Cargo Systems.
Liz McCarthy joined Lloyd’s List Group in 2007 organising awards ceremonies for the paper but began reporting in late 2008. She writes about dry bulk and tanker chartering markets, as well as ship recycling and fleet development.
Craig Eason covers the technical and ship operations news for Lloyd’s List, as well as the Nordic markets from his base in Stockholm.
An area of special interest in recent years has been the development of environmental issues in the maritime industry and the growing interest in the Arctic.
Roger Hailey is a reporter with Lloyd’s List, covering the ports and logistics sector. He joined the paper in 1998 and has held various posts, including news editor and covering the European Commission in Brussels.
Appointed finance correspondent for Lloyd’s List in October 2009, Julian Macqueen built up his expertise in ship finance on an eight-year stint as deputy editor of the monthly, Lloyd’s Shipping Economist. Prior to that, and still in shipping, Mr Macqueen covered the bunker industry. He has twenty years’ experience of business and industrial journalism.
David Osler joined Lloyd’s List in 1996, making him the longest serving member of staff on the world’s oldest daily newspaper. His main areas of coverage are human resources issues including manning and industrial relations, safety at sea, and piracy and other maritime crime.
Tom Leander is Editor-in-Chief of Lloyd’s List in Asia. Tom joined Lloyd’s List after working for the Economist Group for ten years, most recently as editorial director for EuroFinance in London, and, prior to that, as editor of CFO Asia and CFO China magazines, published out of Hong Kong. Tom worked in New York City for financial publications in the 1990s, including American Banker and Global Finance. He also worked as a vice president for Stern Stewart & Co., an economics consultancy.
Colum Murphy is the Asia bureau chief of Lloyd’s List and is based in Hong Kong. He joined Lloyd’s List in March 2010. He is the former deputy editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review. During his five years at FEER he wrote extensively on politics and economics from around the region including Thailand, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, Japan and Taiwan.
Hui Ching-hoo is Lloyd’s List’s China reporter and based in Hong Kong. He joined Lloyd’s List in April 2009 and is now mainly in charge of shipping news in China and Taiwan markets. He covers a various sectors including shipbuilding, ports and shipping lines.
Herbert Fromme, Germany Correspondent
Herbert writes about German affairs for Lloyd’s List. Apart from shipping, his main topics are insurance and energy. During his career, he spent many years in London, covering the UK for German publications.
Patrick Hagen started to write about the German maritime industries for Lloyd’s List in 2006. This was just early enough to still remember the megalomania of most key industry players and – of course – to cover the outcome. He holds a degree in political science but was never tempted to join the Berlin crowd watching politicians. Instead he chose to write about insurers, banks and other obscurities such as new digital printing formats.
Katrin Berkenkopf has been working for Lloyd’s List in Germany since 1998, after graduating in journalism. She did a brief spell as a contributor to the Informa publication Public Ledger, and spent some years writing about the German gas market. But in the end, she found the delusions and confusions of the KG market and the secretive empires of the Hamburg owners more exciting.
And, the Lloyd’s List Intelligence analysts…
Wally Mandryk – Tankers Channel Analyst, Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Wally has over 30 years experience in the commercial maritime industry ranging from ship management to consulting on economic and trade strategies.
Along with overseeing the 8 members of the tanker channel team, Wally manages the consultancy arm of Lloyd’s List intelligence and the APEX energy portfolio.
He works closely with government and commercial clients covering strategy, analysis, benchmarking, demand modelling and forecasting.
Claire Wright – Gas Channel Analyst, Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Claire has 10 years experience in commercial shipping and maritime consultancy.
For the past 5 years she has specialised in vessel transit modelling, trade analysis, and seaborne oil and gas movements analysis.
Claire began her career at A.P. Moller following a Masters Degree in European Politics from the London School of Economics. She has since completed a further Masters Degree in Environmental Management
David Bull – Dry Bulk Channel Analyst, Lloyd’s List Intelligence
David has over 10 years experience in the commercial maritime industry with in-depth knowledge of the dry, gas, tanker and chemical sectors. His first position was with the APEX team analysing tanker movements.
He then gained experience in consultancy, which enabled him to work for vessel owners, managers and with both vessels and port operators. He has worked for a large London based broking house as a Research Manager with responsibility for modelling both the tanker and dry trades and forecasting future vessel demand/supply.