Lloyd's List

Lloyd's List is a maritime intelligence publication that has tracked global shipping since 1734, one of the world's oldest continuously published journals. It operates under Informa's maritime division; its data Arm, Lloyd's List Intelligence, supplies real-time vessel tracking, port calls and supply-chain risk analytics to insurers, governments and sanctions-enforcement agencies. It is intelligence infrastructure rather than a newspaper, and institutionally separate from Lloyd's of London, the insurance market it split from in the 19th century despite sharing 17th-century coffee-house origins.

It became a standard reference for tracking sanctions-evading trade during the Iran conflict, reporting the Revolutionary Guard's Hormuz toll system operational in early March 2026 and documenting roughly 90 vessels transiting with clearance in its first fortnight, at tolls of up to $2 million a vessel. Its escort-convoy reporting has since shown Hormuz throughput capped by warship numbers rather than diplomacy.

Its weekly transit counts, such as the 66% fall in Hormuz crossings recorded in the week to 20 July, have become the figures both insurers and reporters cite when official statements about the strait's status cannot be independently verified.