Lloyd's List

''Lloyd's List'' is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in London as early as 1734. It was published daily until 2013 (when the final print issue, number 60,850, was published), and is now published digitally.

Also known simply as ''The List'', it was begun by Edward Lloyd, the proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee House, as a source of information for merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment on Lombard Street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. It continues to provide this information in addition to marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, market data, research, global trade and law information, and shipping news.

History

The earliest form of ''Lloyd's List'' was estimated by some to have begun by 1692. One historian, Michael Palmer, wrote that: "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... ndAn Account of what English Shipping and Foreign Ships for England, I hear of in Foreign Ports’". Around that time, ''Lloyd’s News'' was published three times a week with no particular emphasis on shipping from 1696 to 1697. However, claims that ''Lloyd's List'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. The World Association of Newspapers lists several earlier, extant titles.

Thomas Jemson inherited Lloyd's Coffee House in 1727 and founded the ''Lloyd's List'' that is known today when he launched a weekly shipping intelligence publication. Publication was weekly until March 1735, then twice weekly, on Tuesdays and Fridays, according to Palmer.

In 1769, the coffee house moved to Pope's Head Alley and from there, the New ''Lloyd’s List'' began, according to Lloyd's Register. The paper was published every day except Sundays from 1 July 1837. In July 1884, ''Lloyd's List'' merged with the ''Shipping and Mercantile Gazette''.

''Lloyd's List'' has spawned several spin-off titles, including sister title ''Insurance Day''.

In 2009, ''Lloyd's List'' went through a major re-design that encompassed both the masthead and the newspaper itself. Between 2011 and 2017, a ''Lloyd’s List'' operated a mobile app. Beginning in 2013, ''Lloyd's List'' was published in digital format only, as it was found that fewer than 2% of customers used the print version.

In 2022, Informa sold ''Lloyd's List'' to Montagu Private Equity. The business was then reorganised as Maritime Insights & Intelligence Limited.

References

Further reading

* Cameron, Alan, and Roy Farndon. ''Scenes from sea and city: Lloyd's list 1734-1984'' (Lloyd's List, 1984), 250th. special anniversary supplement.
* McCusker, John J. "The Early History of ‘Lloyd's List’." ''Historical Research'' 64#155 (1991): 427-431.

External links

Official website

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