Bridget Diakun
Senior Risk and Compliance Analyst, Lloyd’s List Intelligence
Bridget Diakun joined Lloyd’s List Intelligence in January 2022 as a data journalist. She initially worked on understanding the impact that the war in Ukraine had on commercial shipping in the Black and Caspian seas.
In 2023, she was named 'Multimedia Journalist of the Year' by the Seahorse Freight Association for her extensive investigation into the trade out of the occupied ports of Mariupol and Berdyansk.
Now Lloyd’s List’s senior risk and compliance analyst, Bridget focuses on the intersection of geopolitics and commercial shipping. She assesses the impact of conflict on seaborne trade, how the maritime industry adapts to sanctions and investigates tactics used by vessels to disguise illicit activities.
Latest From Bridget Diakun
False flag Baltic transits almost quadruple throughout 2025
The Nordic Baltic 8++ group of countries promised to take action against falsely flagged vessels in June 2025, but the problem only got worse after that
No shortage of targets for French interdiction in the Mediterranean
Should France want to follow up the seizure of stateless shadow fleet tanker Grinch with more interdictions, it will have no shortage of falsely flagged vessels transiting through the Mediterranean
Malaysia’s shadow fleet transfer hub persists despite seizure scrutiny
Malaysia’s seizure and rapid release of two sanctioned tankers this week looks less like a shift in enforcement posture and more like a single operational opportunity that happened to present clear regulatory violations
Venezuelan oil is back on the table (terms and conditions apply)
The US has issued a long-anticipated general licence that effectively puts Venezuelan oil back into the mainstream — but with plenty of restrictions. While there are no expectations for near-term spikes in Venezuelan exports, barrels exported by the shadow fleet can now be shipped above-board, creating more demand for mainstream tonnage in the Atlantic
Newbuild identity theft is the latest deceptive shipping tactic
It is a ‘significant escalation’ in identity theft that is harder to spot than the more common practice of becoming a ‘zombie’ tanker
Greece, China and Russia lead shipping’s Red Sea return, but others are now following
Greek and Chinese companies continue to accelerate their return to Red Sea transits, but some of the recent growth has also been driven by ships affiliated with countries that would have previously been considered high risk