Welcome to the new look Lloyd's List. We've adopted a bright and fresh approach to help inform and guide our readers around the hugely successful and challenging world of modern shipping, energy, and insurance. But while we’ve worked hard to make our valued content more accessible, we are strenuously upholding the editorial values which have made this newspaper such an important and reliable part of the maritime world.

So why the change? Lloyd's List has always strived to move with the times and reflect rapid changes in patterns of trade and business that have affected its readers. In recent years we were early to adopt colour printing, and our website was an early success in business publishing. And just as the business and technology of the shipping and offshore oil sectors has galloped ahead in recent years, so have printing technology and reader expectations.

Our existing readers have been served well by our traditional 'broadsheet' format and partial colour printing over the past decade since our last major redesign. Now, we have eagerly seized the opportunity to produce the paper in a slightly smaller, more manageable 'compact broadsheet' format, which will enable us to produce more pages, run more stories and display our data more clearly.

Lloyd's List has always been relied upon by the maritime world for authoritative and unbiased news and analysis. In these boom times for shipping, this paper is perhaps more important than ever. I guarantee the new look Lloyd's List will provide yet more of the information that you need, but in a format that makes it easier to find the news that's important to you.

To all our existing readers, and I hope many new ones, I trust you'll find the new Lloyd's List informative, stimulating and enjoyable.

Julian Bray,
Editor

Modern markets demand a modern paper

• Booming shipping markets have stimulated huge new interest in the business of the maritime sector. As world's leading maritime newspaper, Lloyd's List can deliver the information and insight to keep you fully informed.
• But Lloyd's List is not just about shipping. We also cover insurance, the Lloyd's market, P&I, offshore energy, trade, and finance - in the depth that you demand.

Fast moving markets need a daily paper

• With business now moving at the speed of light, no one can merely make do with a weekly paper
• You need your information sooner - only a daily can deliver.

All this and the internet too

• Our website at www.lloydslist.com is the best in the business.
• The site has all the news from the daily printed edition, plus added content, data, video and even a blog.

Better Value - more pages, more insight

• Our new format enables us to present our valued news, features and comment, but in a brighter, more accessible and easy to read format.
• We're adding extra news pages, to provide the detailed coverage of global markets you require.
• New 'Focus' pages will highlight key sectors, providing specialist coverage of law, shipbuilding and shiprepair, the cruise and ferry sector, marine insurance, offshore vessels and offshore technology, and of course our weekly review pages.
• Expanded coverage of comment and features, probing important issues in depth.
• More detailed Special Reports - focusing on key markets and countries, giving an insight into specific regions.
• Our world famous Casualty pages - with the information provided by our colleagues in Lloyd's Maritime Intelligence Unit - have been clarified.
• Shipping markets coverage has been doubled in size, proving detailed insight into trade and shipping.
• Financial World daily stock market prices with our exclusive Lloyd's List/Bloomberg Top 50 index of shipping shares.
• And of course, on the back page, the Last Word on shipping.

High quality printing

• In partnership The Guardian Print Centre in London, Lloyd's List can now guarantee crisp, high definition printing in full colour every day of the week.
• State-of-the-art print plant technology means that our reproduction standards will be at the highest possible levels.
• Lloyd's List will now be printed on 100% recycled newsprint, ensuring that we are making our own effort to cut the environmental impact of our business.

All this brought to you by the world's biggest and most experienced team in maritime, insurance and energy journalism - with key new staff being added all the time

• Be the first to read some of the best know names in the business -
• Michael Grey, Janet Porter, James Brewer, Tony Gray, David Osler and
• Sandra Speares in London.
• Our new Markets team, also in London, Jerry Frank and Jamie Dale.
• Offshore energy specialist Martyn Wingrove, and technical guru Craig Eason.
• Around Europe, Nigel Lowry in Greece, John McLaughlin in Italy, Herbert Fromme and team in German, Andrew Spurrier in France and Brian Reyes in Gibraltar.
• Rajesh Joshi and Rainbow Nelson in North and South America.
• And in Asia, Marcus Hand, Keith Wallis, Mike Grinter, Shirish Nadkarni and Sandra Tsui.
• Our web team Nathaniel Xavier and Hong Mac lead by Mark Warner.
• The team on the newsdesk Roger Hailey, Richard Meade, and Val Kearney along with deputy editor Neville Smith and executive editor Chris Mayer.
• Our Production Editor Kelvin Ross and deputy Nicola Good, supported by their team.