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
SCFI falls again as peak season appears to have peaked
The good news for ocean carriers is that spot rates remain exceptionally high, despite the recent pullback, implying strong profits for the current quarter
Baltic Exchange indexes take curiously different paths amid Hormuz crisis
As the security situation violently seesaws back and forth in the Strait of Hormuz, the dynamics have changed for Baltic Exchange indexes measuring freight for ships that brave the transit
Russian ban and Hormuz setback deliver one-two punch to seaborne diesel
Diesel — which accounts for around a third of coated product tanker cargo volume — is under siege, courtesy of Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz
‘Back to square one’ for crude markets after Iranian attacks on shuttle VLCCs
The Omani route shuttle service has been a key exit conduit for crude cargoes during the Hormuz crisis. Iran has now attacked three VLCCs involved in shuttling, two on Monday and one on July 7. Their targeting is probably not a coincidence
How the Hormuz crisis upended first-half crude flows and spot tanker fixtures
The plunge of China’s Unipec and ascent of Brazil’s Petrobras in Poten’s dirty cargo fixture data highlights the enormity of changes spurred by the Hormuz crisis
SCFI retreats for first time in months as frothy box market loses momentum
Container spot rates may be just taking a temporary breather, with more gains to come, or they may have hit a ceiling. What happens next hinges on how much cargo was frontloaded and how much peak-season volume is still to come