Megawati Wijaya
Senior Reporter, Singapore

Megawati is a Lloyd's List senior reporter based in Singapore.
She has more than 12 years of experience in business and financial journalism. Prior to joining Lloyd's List, she was a senior reporter at Debtwire, covering distressed debt, restructuring, and special situations in Indonesia and Singapore. Before that, she was a senior correspondent with Metal Bulletin, reporting on Southeast Asia's steel and base metals news and prices.
As a freelance contributor for Asia Times Online, she has reported on Singapore's watershed general election 2011, the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, and the discrimination faced by the LGBT community in Indonesia, among others.
Megawati has a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism and Media Studies from Rhodes University, and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore. She speaks English, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, and some Mandarin, and is learning Oriya.
Latest From Megawati Wijaya
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CMA CGM teams with MPA on maritime decarbonisation push
The agreement will aim to improve maritime training and skills development and explore collaboration opportunities in the digitalisation space, including maritime cyber security and just-in-time shipping
Russia’s seaborne fertiliser exports at record high
Despite being at the forefront of campaigners for embargo against Russia, the US has also been buying Russian fertilisers, sources said
PSA completes trial with OOCL to improve container flow
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Keppel’s ammonia bunker vessel design receives ABS backing
The 188m long, 33,000 cu m ammonia bunker vessel design is intended to carry liquid ammonia as a carrier as well as bunker fuel for a many types of receiving vessels, says ABS
Al Seer Marine acquires two VLCCs from Sovcomflot
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