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Eric Watkins
Americas Correspondent
Eric Watkins is the Americas Correspondent for Lloyd’s List, covering container traffic in the Western Hemisphere. Based in Los Angeles, California, Eric covers the major container ports along the Pacific Coast and is familiar with the region’s transport system, including maritime, railroad and trucking.
Eric brings a global perspective to his work, having worked as a foreign correspondent in the Arabian Peninsula, Central Asia, Africa and Europe. Now living on a bluff overlooking San Pedro Bay, Eric is well positioned to report on the global traffic that plies the seas to and from the Pacific gateways of North and South America.
Latest From Eric Watkins
US east coast Colonial pipeline resumes operations after cyber-attack
Transatlantic tanker rates have steadied, with fixtures agreed earlier this work to ship gasoline and other refined products to the US east coast not going ahead as urgency abates with pipeline restart
US considers Jones Act waiver amid pipeline crisis
A waiver of the Jones Act would allow foreign tankers to carry petroleum products up the eastern seaboard from the Gulf coast as panic-buying threatens to exacerbate the supply shock in the US southeast
Eneti goes greener with offshore wind vessel order
‘We are laying the groundwork for a Jones-Act compliant WTIV to address the American mandate for offshore wind development,’ said Eneti chief executive Emanuele Lauro
BP recognises US oil group’s climate policy change
BP cites three main areas of improvements in American Petroleum Institute’s climate policy — regulating methane emissions, supporting carbon pricing and improving transparency
Cheniere Energy boosted by ‘strong’ global LNG demand
The company says it exported a record of 133 cargoes of liquefied natural gas in first three months, ‘with production incentivised by strong global LNG margins during the quarter’
Congress pursues hearings on US maritime funding needs
US ports ‘require better landside and waterside connections to facilitate trade and to remain globally competitive,’ said Earl Blumenauer, chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade