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
Geopolitical tensions at Panama Canal still very high despite sale of ports
Shipping could face a major disruption if Trump is not bluffing about taking back the Panama Canal. Hopes that the Hutchison sale would placate the US and solve the problem have been dashed
Transatlantic rates have been resilient but trade war fallout looms
Spot rates in the transatlantic westbound trade have held up better than Asia-US and Asia-Europe rates this year. However, future Europe-US cargo flows are under threat as tariffs and retaliatory tariffs pile up.
Zim’s view on US port fee plan and why spot rates are falling
Zim’s stock, the most heavily traded container equity on the world, continues to be a big bet on geopolitics. Geopolitical uncertainty is now exceptionally high and investors are placing their wagers
US could face trade ‘apocalypse’ if Trump port fee plan isn’t killed
The supply chain disruption in the US was historically severe during the pandemic. It might be even worse if the Trump administration goes forward with its proposed port fee plan targeting Chinese ships and non-Chinese operators of Chinese ships, according to feedback submitted to the USTR
Are spot rates sinking due to alliance reshuffle or US tariff chaos?
Container shipping’s tariff exposure is rising and looks set to become much worse in April. Falling spot rates could be a leading indicator of lower US imports in the months ahead, or they could be an artifact of the global restructuring of carrier alliances that is now at its most disruptive stage