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
Red Sea shipping traffic growing but box bosses still weighing up a big bang return
Yemen’s Houthis have signalled a halt to their attacks on ships, and shipowners appear to be responding with a five-month uptick in vessels transiting the Bab el Mandeb. But an end to more than two years of disruption to global maritime trade is realistically only going to end once the major lines return, potentially en masse
Peak shadow fleet is still to come
As long as there is demand for sanctioned barrels the shadow fleet will continue to expand
More LPG carriers are spoofing loadings in Russia. It’s not entirely clear why
The gas carriers are employing the playbook of vessels moving sanctioned oil and gas cargoes, but the reason is unclear. Russian LPG is not subject to restrictions under the G7 price cap and is only subject to some import restrictions by the EU
CMA CGM tests waters with first Asia–Europe ULC poised for Red Sea transit
Despite fragile security, CMA CGM’s move hints at early testing of Red Sea routes by ultra large boxships long avoided by major carriers
Russian box volumes rebound despite sanctions and service realignments
Russia’s container trade has mostly realigned toward non-Western partners and direct, rather than feeder, services
India’s Russian shadow fleet conundrum remains, despite Trump ‘deal’
India relies heavily on the shadow fleet to import Russian crude