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
Spot rates still falling but Maersk touts ‘benign’ box shipping outlook
There are a lot of negatives for container shipping: falling spot rates, looming overcapacity from the Red Sea reopening, a still very sizeable orderbook, and more tariffs. And yet, Maersk executives are sounding more optimistic than they have in the past
VLCC sanctions upside has begun but is ‘just in the early innings’
If the Trump administration wants to sanction more VLCCs, there are plenty of targets to choose from. According to DHT, 105 VLCCs are operating in sanctioned trades, but have yet to be designated. Sanctions are already having a positive effect on demand for mainstream tankers, but the real upside is still to come
Trump pressure on Iran positive for VLCC rates but with lag effect
The newly announced Trump policy targeting Iranian crude flows sounds very positive for VLCC rates. But unlike in the old days, when Opec was much more important to the global crude flows, such events do not cause an immediate and extreme VLCC rate spike. It will take time for sustainable upside to materialise
Trump 2.0 tariff bazooka is looking more like a damp squib
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs now look a lot less material to shipping. Financial markets reacted extremely negatively to the initial plan and Trump subsequently paused his actions for a month, delaying most — but not all — of the shipping impact
Trump trade war 2.0: What are the pros and cons for shipping?
Trump’s new trade war offers some positives for ocean shipping: Disruptions generally boost spot rates and more containerised cargo could be frontloaded ahead of expected future tariffs. The negative is that tariffs will likely hurt personal and business consumption, reducing future cargo demand
Scorpio changes course, shifts from passive to active stake in DHT
Act One: Scorpio Tankers became a passive investor in DHT in 3Q24. Act Two: Scorpio has just become an active investor. Could there be an Act Three with Scorpio as an active, aggressive investor?