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
Hormuz ‘storm’ propels VLCC spot market, asset prices and long-term rates
VLCC owners have already earned generational wealth. Their ‘champagne problem’ is to max out gains amid uncertainty: weighing spot exposure versus taking some chips off the table via vessel sales or locking in long-term charters
Resilient cargo flows keep container line correction at bay
In 2023, after the pandemic boom ended, there were dire predictions on the fate of container shipping lines. These forecasts turned out to be spectacularly wrong. Three years later, liner operators are still going strong
How Hormuz crisis effect on product tankers diverged from crude
Product tanker owners are posting all-time-high results for 2Q26, but that is backward-looking. Current spot rates are less impressive, and future prospects hinge on how geopolitical events unfold
The more convoluted crude routes become, the higher VLCC rates go
Crude oil is taking a long and winding path from the Middle East Gulf to Asia, including ship-to-ship transfers, pipeline transits and long seaborne detours. Trading inefficiencies are translating into even more profits for VLCC owners
Shipping is firing on all cylinders as rate strength spreads
The traditional shipping business formula — more disruptions equal higher profits — is paying off in epic fashion in 2026. Bad news for the Panama Canal should add to the good news for rates
Shipping stocks at decade highs amid geopolitical chaos and strong demand
The 2000s was the ‘golden era’ for shipping stocks, with multiple segments all spiking simultaneously. Recent trading behaviour of shipping equities is starting to look similar to that earlier peak two decades ago