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
US port fees don’t hit until October but shipping response already underway
For shipping to avoid US port fees beginning in mid-October, it needs to put plans in motion now, and not wait for clarity on the specifics of fee implementation that may be a long time coming. The industry is already making moves
Shipping stocks bounce back after ‘Liberation Day’ tariff slump
In theory, stock prices take into account future expectations. If so, shipping share prices imply that investors believe trade war fallout will be less severe than previously feared
Scepticism mounts on theory that tariff pause will spark US import boom
There was investor euphoria last week with many believing US imports would skyrocket after US President Donald Trump brought down incremental China tariffs from 145% to 30%. The current view from the Port of Los Angeles is considerably less euphoric
Zim strikes cautious tone, citing uncertainty on rebound duration
The coast is far from clear for liner operators like Zim. Volumes are currently surging but more trade-war fallout could be around the corner, depending how US negotiations go with China and other Asian exporters
Transpacific rates spike but Walmart warns that China tariffs are ‘still too high’
The China-US container trade has suddenly flipped from famine to feast. How long this lasts hinges on how American importers manage the remaining tariffs