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
DSV mega-deal for DB Schenker creates ocean freight-forwarding giant
The $15.85bn acquisition of DB Schenker by DSV creates a European powerhouse in ocean shipping freight forwarding. Container lines will face a much larger counterparty across the annual-contract bargaining table next year
The importers’ dilemma: Switch coasts or wait out US strike threat?
It is too late to strategise for cargo already en route to US east coast and Gulf coast ports. For cargo not yet loaded, the main strike-prep options are to switch to the west coast or wait — and hope for the best
Panama Canal bounces back, buoyed by boxships, VLGCs and bulkers
Now that reservation slots and draught levels are back to normal, the Panama Canal is wooing back ship traffic. More neopanamax containerships are taking the route, and average ship size is growing
The numbers don’t lie: October US port strike would be ‘cataclysmic’
Asian exports of manufactured goods to the US could shift to west coast ports, but building supplies and wine from Europe and bananas from Latin America will have a far harder time rerouting if east and Gulf coast ports are shuttered
US imports still booming — and on collision course with possible port strike
The International Longshoremen’s Association has perfect timing for its October 1 strike threat. Not only is the potential work stoppage just one month before a presidential election, it coincides with a period when import volumes are near record highs
Tanker shipping’s dark fleet to keep growing until ‘margins are destroyed’
Lars Barstad of Frontline has ‘lost all faith’ in the ability of sanctions and regulations to curtail the dark fleet. Rather, as ageing of the overall fleet accelerates and more old tankers switch to sanctioned trades, he sees the law of supply and demand intervening