Greg Miller
Senior Maritime Reporter
Greg Miller is a senior maritime reporter for Lloyd’s List, based in New York. He is an award-winning journalist who has covered ocean shipping for the past two decades – five years for FreightWaves and American Shipper, and 15 years for Fairplay. He has extensive knowledge of container, crude, products, dry bulk, LNG and LPG markets, as well as shipping finance, regulation and technology.
Prior to his work for Fairplay, he served as senior editor of Cruise Industry News in New York for seven years, and editor in chief of the Virgin Islands Business Journal in St. Thomas for five years. He is a graduate of Cornell University, where he was a columnist for the Cornell Daily Sun.
Latest From Greg Miller
The rise of shipping disruptions amid the shift to a multipolar world
There are a lot of similarities between the current shipping upcycle and the 2000s supercycle, but the underlying drivers of the two booms are very different, according to speakers at Marine Money Week
How strait reopening could impact VLCC rates in Middle East and Atlantic
It’s too early for major moves in crude tanker rates driven by the US-Iran peace framework. The market is in wait-and-see mode and scepticism is high. But major moves in freight could be around the corner
Container spot rates still rising, heading toward Red Sea crisis highs
In early February, Maersk executives were talking about the depth and duration of a looming downturn. Four months later, the container market has completely changed. Liners are booking lucrative spot cargoes and there are reports of contract cargoes getting rolled
As Hormuz saga twists and turns, crude tanker rates stabilise at lofty levels
The ‘noise’ proliferates amid the Hormuz crisis — yet another pending deal was touted on Thursday — whereas tanker rates provide the ‘signal’. Spot rates indicate that crude tanker shipping has found an equilibrium, one that is generating large amounts of cash for owners
How the Hormuz crisis changed the equation for shipping stocks
If you look at year-on-year gains, shipping shares have done phenomenally well. If you look at performance since the beginning of the Hormuz crisis, returns are minimal. The big exception is BWET, which has left the rest of the shipping field in the dust
The fear was that Trump policies would stifle US imports, yet demand endures
Trump’s tariffs and the war with Iran were predicted to be bad for US goods import demand — a negative for container shipping — but US box volumes have been surprisingly robust