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Lloyd’s List Intelligence has been recognised as one of the maritime industry’s most innovative organisations in the Thetius Top 150 2026, joining a select group of 35 Corporate Organisations recognised for their contribution to advancing the sector.
The recognition reflects our continued investment in combining trusted maritime data, advanced technology and deep industry expertise to help customers navigate an increasingly complex risk and operating environment.
“Maritime is becoming more complex. Our customers are navigating geopolitical disruption, rapidly changing sanctions, increasingly sophisticated deceptive shipping practices and growing pressure to make decisions quickly and confidently. Our focus is on combining the depth of maritime data and expertise within Lloyd’s List Intelligence with technology that makes that intelligence genuinely useful at the point of decision, underpinned and lead by deep human expertise. This recognition reflects the work our teams are doing to help organisations around the world navigate risk and advance global trade.”
Waqas Samad, CEO
Innovation built around real maritime challenges
Innovation at Lloyd’s List Intelligence starts with the problems our customers are trying to solve.
As maritime risk becomes more complex, organisations need to understand not only where vessels are, but the wider context surrounding their movements, ownership, behaviour and potential exposure.
Over the past year, we have continued to strengthen that intelligence across our solutions. From GNSS interference identification and enhanced risk detection in high-conflict environments, to contextual Nautical Charts, predictive ETA/ETB/ETD intelligence and deeper ownership analysis against requirements such as the OFAC 50% Rule, our focus has been on giving customers a clearer, more connected picture of maritime activity.
Rather than requiring teams to piece together information from multiple sources, these capabilities connect vessel movements with ownership, sanctions, behavioural signals, cargo and wider maritime context, helping customers investigate risk and make decisions with greater confidence.
“Innovation for us isn’t about adding more data or technology for the sake of it. It starts with understanding the decisions our customers need to make and the problems getting in their way. Our focus is increasingly on connecting data, context and maritime expertise in ways that make complex questions easier to answer. Whether a customer is assessing risk, investigating ownership or identifying a commercial opportunity, we want to give them the clearest possible route from information to action.
Nicky Marlin, Chief Product Officer
Turning maritime data into decision-ready intelligence
The scale and complexity of maritime data continue to grow, but more data alone does not necessarily mean better decisions.
Our approach combines proprietary maritime data, AI and advanced analytics with human expertise to turn that information into intelligence customers can act on. This allows organisations across shipping, trade, finance, insurance, compliance and government to identify emerging risks, investigate activity and make more informed decisions.
The Thetius recognition reflects that wider direction: continuing to develop intelligence that helps customers understand what is happening, what it means and what they should do next.
Explore our innovations
Discover more about some of the capabilities helping customers navigate maritime risk and opportunity:
Nautical Charts: bring AIS positions together with navigational and underwater context to support maritime investigations. Explore Nautical Charts.
Advanced Compliance: connect sanctions, ownership, cargo and behavioural risk for more defensible maritime compliance decisions. Explore Advanced Compliance.
Maritime intelligence: combine vessel movements, ownership, operational behaviour, sanctions exposure and market context to support better decision-making. Explore maritime intelligence.
AI-powered intelligence: see how Lloyd’s List Intelligence combines proprietary maritime data, machine learning and human expertise. Explore our AI capabilities.
