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
Peak season may have already peaked as Trump tariffs darken outlook
The main effect of Trump’s tariffs on container shipping in the first half was on timing — frontloading and pauses. During the second half, tariff impacts could be increasingly negative for volumes
USTR urged to kill proposed rules on vehicle carriers and LNG shipping
America’s port fee plan is rife with unintended consequences. Proposals targeting vehicle transport and LNG shipping are prime examples of how port fees could backfire, hurting US interests and doing nothing to penalise Chinese shipbuilding
Tanker gains from Israel-Iran conflict have largely evaporated
Oil prices and tanker stocks immediately plunged when the Israel-Iran ceasefire was declared. The freight market has now followed suit. Crude and product tanker spot rates in the Middle East have suffered a major reversal
Taking stock of dry bulk shipping as 1H25 comes to a close
The dry bulk sector continues to disappoint, with capesize rates falling from more than $30,000 per day to under $19,000 per day in the past two weeks, and further declines expected in the coming months
Asia-US west coast spot rates start to stabilise after steep slide
The bad news for shipping lines: transpacific rates continue to slide. The good news: rates from Asia to the US west coast may be stabilising near the same levels they were when US President Donald Trump announced his tariff reprieve
LNG shipping rates rise in wake of Middle East turmoil but they’re still low
LNG newbuildings are still hitting the water too fast, keeping rates subdued, yet executives speaking at the recent Marine Money Week conference said that looming liquefaction projects will spur another wave of orders