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
Carriers face weak second half in transpacific as rate slide continues
The cards are stacked against ocean carriers in the transpacific trade. Tariffs are pressuring margins of US importers, prompting some shippers to reduce orders. US businesses could face higher tariff costs in the second half than in the first
Transatlantic trade in tariff crosshairs as US-EU deal deadline nears
It’s entirely possible that the US and EU won’t reach a deal in the next two weeks, the US will triple its tariff, the EU will retaliate, and the US will retaliate against the EU. Importers have at least partially prepared for this worst-case scenario by bringing goods across the Atlantic early
Threats to Russian oil flows intensify but exports keep chugging along
It looks like the status quo will prevail for Russian exports of crude and products. US president Donald Trump’s threat of eventual tariffs on buyers of Russian exports is being viewed, for now, as a non-event
June spike in LA imports belies bearish outlook on second half
Enjoy the good times while they last. That’s the view on record import numbers in Los Angeles in June that are expected to peak in July. It’s all downhill after that, courtesy of Trump’s tariffs, according to current forecasts
Stocks off to strong start in July as dry bulk and VLGC rates rise
A combination of improving rates and external catalysts has given shipping-stock sentiment a lift in the early days of summer. It could be just a blip, or the start of something more
Panama Canal has plenty of water but transits still below pre-drought levels
Water levels are high and are expected to remain so, and the Panama Canal has posted a strong recovery from its drought lows. Nevertheless, its transit slots are not fully booked