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
Hapag-Lloyd hikes full-year guidance, sees ‘steep increase in spot rates’
Hapag-Lloyd reports a strong pick up in demand for Asian exports to Europe and the US in recent weeks. But chief executive Rolf Habben Jansen says it’s too early to tell how long the surprise rebound in spot rates will last
The price of Navios and the pure play vs diversified fleet debate
The price of Navios Partners’ common units has been catalysed in 2024 by equity purchases of CEO Angeliki Frangou, not a sudden change of heart among investors on the company’s diversified-fleet model
As shipping stocks soar, controlling shareholders reap the rewards
Shipping stocks have rallied to new highs in recent days, but longer-term gains are even more impressive. Over the past half-decade, larger-cap shipping stocks have outpaced the S&P 500 by between two and 10 times. Insider wealth from shipping ownership has surged by hundreds of millions
Rising US imports add more fuel to resurgent Red Sea-driven rate rally
Spot rates are spiking again on the Asia-US west coast route, a trade that is not directly affected by canal restrictions. Strong US demand — possibly including front-loading — is coinciding with indirect capacity effects from Red Sea disruptions
Product tanker owners savour heady mix of geopolitics, strong demand and shrinking debt
Earnings of product tanker owners have been juiced by trade disruptions from the Russia-Ukraine war and the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea. With lower debt and rising customer interest in long-term charters, owners are looking to ride the upcycle for longer
Panama Canal rebound continues as transits rise again in April
An increasing number of VLGCs are transporting US LPG to Asia via the neopanamax locks, while the panamax locks are seeing more chemical tankers, dry bulk ships and general cargo vessels