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
Trump 2.0, China-US relations and shipping’s ‘parallel’ fleets
A wide array of US proposals target China. Some are from incoming US president Donald Trump, such as tariffs. Other proposals include a port fee on Chinese-built ships, higher tonnage taxes and lighthouse fees for China-linked vessels, and mandated carriage of some Chinese exports on US ships
Container rates in full retreat; stock sentiment hit by ceasefire
Spot rates are falling across the board, likely because of seasonal demand weakness. There is also a structural risk emerging: The Israel-Hamas ceasefire could eventually bring containerships back to the Red Sea, leading to severe overcapacity
Tanker stocks sink as sanctions-fuelled rally loses steam
Middle East Gulf-China forward freight agreements for VLCCs declined by 6% on Thursday, and tanker stock investors are becoming less confident in future upside from US sanctions
Elderly boxships still in service but scrapping should rebound when Red Sea reopens
The one-two punch of the pandemic and the Red Sea crisis has kept vintage box tonnage on the water. The question ahead is: Could a ceasefire in the Middle East and an eventual return to the Suez route finally open up the floodgates for containership recycling?
VLCC spot rates surge higher as tanker stock rally takes a breather
US sanctions on Russia have reinvigorated the recently moribund VLCC business. The outlook for VLCCs is much brighter than it was only a week ago, but how sanctions play out for rates and stocks remains to be seen
Container lines on track for yet another quarter of high profits
Container stocks are falling because spot rates are declining and a US port strike has been averted. But when the European and US-listed liner companies report 4Q24 results next month, their profits will be impressively high, if early data from Asian liners is any indication