Ece Göksedef
Senior reporter, Lloyd’s List
Ece Göksedef is a London-based senior reporter at Lloyd’s List, specialising in data-driven investigations and risk analyses. She joined the publication in 2025 and focuses on in-depth reporting on global shipping, trade and the geopolitical dynamics shaping the maritime industry.
Before joining Lloyd’s List, Ece worked as an investigative journalist for the BBC and Al Jazeera, where she covered diplomacy, conflict and political developments across the Middle East.
She holds a master’s degree in politics of conflict, rights, and justice from SOAS, University of London, and a graduate degree in political science and international relations from Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Türkiye.
Latest From Ece Göksedef
Stuck in the Middle East Gulf: seafarers reveal the human cost of a shipping war
Behind every stranded vessel and every datapoint are seafarers operating in some of the most trying conditions in global shipping. Two mariners spoke exclusively to Lloyd’s List about what it is like to be trapped in the MEG, or attempt a transit of the Strait of Hormuz, amid missile threats, drone attacks and mounting uncertainty
Tankers signal oil majors in AIS messages to avoid Ukrainian drone attacks
Tankers calling at Russia’s Black Sea export hub are increasingly broadcasting links to Western oil majors and Kazakh crude in AIS messages, as shipowners adopt new tactics to reduce the risk of Ukrainian drone attacks on vessels serving Novorossiysk
VLCCs lighten loads to slip through Suez as Houthi blockade bites
Switched-off transponders and part-discharged cargoes reveal how far tanker owners are going to keep Saudi crude moving under the shadow of the Houthi blockade
‘Now they are hitting to kill’: Seafarers pull back from Black Sea trades
Experienced seafarers are increasingly refusing voyages linked to Ukraine and Russia as drone attacks intensify across the Black Sea, raising fears that crews are being deliberately targeted and fuelling concerns over who will operate the ships that continue trading in the region
Disrupted Saudi tanker traffic goes dark following Houthi embargo
Saudi oil exports from the Red Sea are increasingly disappearing from view as tanker operators switch off tracking signals or abandon voyages in response to a Houthi maritime embargo, threatening a key alternative export route already strained by disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz
Russian attacks deter shipowners from calling at Ukrainian Black Sea ports
Escalating attacks by Russia and Ukraine on ships, ports and maritime infrastructure in the Black Sea are driving up costs, shrinking vessel availability and reviving fears of a return to the uncertainty that followed the collapse of the grain deal in 2023