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
Crude tanker cannibalisation of clean cargo winds down (for now)
One of this year’s big surprises has been the high number of non-newbuilding crude tankers switching to clean trades to take advantage of better rates. This practice effectively reduces the duration that long-range product tankers can significantly outperform suezmaxes and VLCCs
How new Trump tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada could impact shipping
The ‘opening salvo’ in the next trade war came two months before Donald Trump’s inauguration. The president-elect’s tariff threat against China is real, and will impact container shipping immediately. Tariffs targeting Mexico and Canada are viewed as more of a negotiating tactic, with the effects on ocean shipping more hypothetical
Shipping M&A 2025: Not as strong as 2024 but deal flow may surprise to upside
Lower share prices could spur more private takeovers of public companies in 2025. M&A transactions could also be driven by the urgent need for fleet renewal, although deal flow could hinge on whether asset values for modern tonnage retreat to levels acceptable to buyers
Idan Ofer to exit Zim as Houthi attacks buoy profits and share price
The Houthi rebels wanted to inflict pain on Israel — but there were unintended consequences. The Red Sea crisis has boosted container shipping profits and equity values, providing Israeli billionaire Idan Ofer the opportunity to cash out of his Zim stake at a high point
Could tough Trump tactics on China shrink markets for Western owners?
The larger China’s role in shipbuilding and the greater its control of the global fleet, the more Western owners could ‘be playing with an increasingly shrinking percentage of the pie’ — particularly if geopolitical tensions flare
Container spot rates to US west coast keep falling despite cargo front-loading hype
Spot freight rates for container shipments from Asia to the US west coast continue to slide. Either US importers are not frontloading cargo yet in anticipation of a port strike and Trump tariffs, or there are too many containerships in the Pacific