Lloyd's List Intelligence

Lloyd's List Intelligence (formerly Lloyd's MIU LLC), founded in 1734, is an information service that dedicated to the global maritime community. It is a sister company of Lloyd's List.^[1]

Lloyd's List Intelligence is an interactive online service offering detailed vessel movements; real-time AIS positioning; information on ships, companies, ports, and casualties; credit reports; and industry data and analysis including short-term market outlook reports. It also provides support services such as consultancy, investigations, due diligence, market trend analysis, and credit risk appraisal. Lloyd's List Intelligence has principal offices in the UK, US, Singapore and Australia, and directly employs analysts and researchers in Greece, India, Canada and China.

Provided information incorporates the world's largest Automatic Identification System (AIS) network, online maritime database and data bank of company credit reports. Its sources also include the Lloyd's Agency Network of agents and sub-agents for vessel movements' data, registries and classification societies for vessel characteristics, and company registries of corporate data.

History

The company is a spin-off of Lloyd's List, which has historically tracked and provided maritime information. In February 2017, Lloyd's List Intelligence launched a platform, Next Gen Lloyd's List Intelligence.^[2] In 2022, Informa sold Lloyd's List Intelligence to Montagu Private Equity.^[3]

Services

Lloyd's List Intelligence operates via industry-specific channels, including tankers, gas, dry bulk, finance & credit, law & regulation, and insurance. Each channel is available as a stand-alone subscription or can be combined and all include the Ask the Analyst service.^[4]

Other services include investigations into vessels, asset tracking, companies and due diligence, and assessing the overall risk and credit exposures for entire portfolios. Individual credit reports can also be commissioned, or existing reports can be purchased directly from their data bank.^[5]

Data Sources

Lloyd's List Intelligence employs over 200 staff, including specialist journalists and both market and data analysts who collect and process information.^[6]

More than 1,450 locations are covered globally by land-based AIS receivers to provide live coverage of commercial ports and terminals in 132 countries.^[7] Over 100 million positions are reported every day from 40,000 unique vessels. In addition, tracking uses satellite AIS reports from ORBCOMM Inc.^[8] Satellite AIS positions are recorded from 1Nm to more than 1,500Nm from shore, providing reporting where land-based AIS is reduced.

Additional data suppliers include classification societies (IACS and non-IACS members), flag registries, P&I clubs, ship owners, port authorities, ship brokers,^[9] insurers,^[10] coastguards, search and rescue centers, and government and pan-government suppliers.^{[citation needed]}