     lloyd's list is one of the world's oldest continuously running journals, having provided weekly shipping news in london as early as 1734. now published daily, a recent issue was numbered 60,850 (2013). known simply as 'the list', lloyd's list was begun by edward lloyd, the proprietor of lloyd's coffee house in the city of london as a reliable but terse source of information for the merchants' agents and insurance underwriters who met regularly in his establishment in lombard street to negotiate insurance coverage for trading vessels. the newspaper survives today to fulfil a similar purpose, although its circulation is now international and it appears daily. as well as shipping news, lloyd's list today covers marine insurance, offshore energy, logistics, global trade and law.lloyd's list - home ==history== thumb|an early image of edward lloyd's coffee house, where lloyd's list was originally published in the 18th century. predecessor publications are known. one historian, michael palmer, claims: "no later than january 1692, lloyd began publishing a weekly newsletter, âships arrived at and departed from several ports of england, as i have account of them in london... [and] an account of what english shipping and foreign ships for england, i hear of in foreign portsâ".. however, claims that lloyd's list is the oldest or second-oldest continuously published newspaper in the world are disputed. the world association of newspapers lists three earlier, extant titles.. research on the history of edward lloyd was carried out by charles wright and c. ernest fayle, authors of âa history of lloydâsâ] that was published in 1928, and which is cited by classification society lloydâs register. the coffee house is first mentioned in 1689 in the london gazette, when it was based in tower street. in 1691, lloyd moved the premises to lombard street, close to the royal exchange at the heart of londonâs trading activity. it became popular with [[merchants
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