Lloyd Italiano was an Italian shipping company founded in Genoa in 1904 by Erasmo Piaggio and carried out a passenger service between Italy and North and South America.

Erasmo Piaggio had been managing director of the Navigazione Generale Italiana company, founded in 1881 from the merger of the Rubattino and Florio fleets and strengthened with the Raggio and Piaggio fleets. Under his direction this company was establishing itself on international trade with over eighty units. Piaggio took care of its modernization with constructions designed based on customer requests.

After having created the Società Esercizio Bacini, for the management of the dry docks of Genoa, Piaggio designed a shipyard in 1897 to absorb the majority of the orders of the large shipping company. According to Piaggio's intentions, the construction site was to be a large complex in which to concentrate and carry out the construction, operation and maintenance functions. However, the project was not shared by the other members of the company who opposed it in the name of different interests and in the end Erasmo Piaggio set up his own factory in Riva Trigoso near Sestri Levante in 1898, entrusting its construction to the Società Esercizio Bacini and founding his own company a few years later. company, the "Lloyd Italiano" which, by linking itself to the Riva Trigoso shipyard, would build its ships under the direction of Piaggio.

The shipping company ended up under the control of Navigazione Generale Italiana in 1911, which completely absorbed it in 1918.