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
VLCC ‘aggregator’ has caused fundamental market shift, says DHT
VLCC ownership has abruptly become much more concentrated. ‘We can say with confidence that this is already having an impact on freight rates in the spot market, customer demand for time charters, and values of secondhand VLCCs,’ says DHT’s Svein Moxnes Harfjeld
Maersk lays out scenarios for duration and severity of slump
‘The unknown is how deep and long it will last,’ says Maersk’s Patrick Jany of the rate downturn. ‘Our view is that you will not have three years of pain. You will have one or two years of pain, then capacity will be taken out’
Shipping share performance continues to trounce broader stock market
It was a fantastic year for shipping stocks in 2025 and the bull run continues in 2026. It’s not just tankers — the strength is widespread — and ongoing geopolitical unrest bodes well for shipping equities going forward.
Pressure mounts on Russian oil exports, a positive for compliant VLCCs
January tanker and oil data confirms that Western pressure is having a material impact on Russian exports. On Monday, US President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with India, including a pledge by India to stop buying Russian crude — which would squeeze Russian volumes and pricing even more
Trump ratchets up tariff uncertainty as spot rates continue to slide
It’s only 30 days into 2026, and US President Donald Trump has already threatened to charge new tariffs on goods from Canada, South Korea, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Finland, all countries doing business with Iran, and all countries supplying oil to Cuba. It’s going to be a long year