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
Port of LA imports sank 19% in May vs April, with no major rebound expected
Tariffs are already having a highly negative effect on business at the Port of Los Angeles. May was extremely weak. The ‘status quo’ for tariffs looks like it will prevail; if so, imports will face headwinds for the rest of the year
Transpacific spot rate index suffers largest-ever weekly decline
The hope among liner stock investors was that lower US tariffs on Chinese goods would unleash a flood of cargo, spurring a Covid era-like surge in transpacific rates. But the upside looks like it will be fleeting this time around
No tariff relief despite US-China ‘deal’ hype — a negative for shipping
The base case appears to be that US tariffs will be maintained by the Trump administration at or near current levels — which, excluding this April, are the highest since the Great Depression. If so, it will pressure US importers’ bottom lines and create ongoing headwinds for container shipping demand
Panama Canal transits drop in May despite counterintuitive boxship rise
May was not a great month for the Panama Canal, but it’s too early to call a downward trend. The pullback is likely due to a mix of seasonality, month-on-month volatility and some fallout from the trade war
NRF peak-season forecast remains subdued despite tariff-reprieve bounce
The import numbers are starting to come in for May, and they’re ugly. The question now is whether the 2025 peak season can recover from tariffs. The latest forecast from the National Retail Federation is not encouraging
Final US port fee plan won’t be released until July at the earliest
If you’re a ship operator planning global deployments that extend beyond mid-October, you’d like to know what the rules will be for US port fees. Ship operators won’t know those rules for at least another month