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
Analysts see more upside to come as VLCC rates near six-figure threshold
The signals are flashing green for the VLCC market as spot rates remain very strong in the wake of last week’s surge and more long-haul cargoes head from the Atlantic to the Pacific basin
VLCC spot rates skyrocket to highest level since March 2023
After a disappointing series of false starts, the VLCC market has finally broken through to a new, higher level. Spot rates in the second half of the year look likely to be the strongest since the pandemic-era floating storage boom
Mixed signals in transpacific as rates to Europe continue to slide
Transpacific rates continue to increase, but expectation is that the rebound will be moderate and short-lived. Meanwhile, Asia-Europe rates are showing increasing weakness
Bulker fallout looms as trade tensions threaten US soyabean season
US grain exports outperformed through August, but are poised for a fall in the final four months of the year as China continues to boycott American soyabeans
US imports drop in August as expected, but they’re still very high
US imports declined in August versus July, however, this is not unusual and the drop was small. Predicted volume fallout from tariffs is expected to ramp up in September-December