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
Panama Canal ends fiscal year 2024 with 29% plunge in total transits
Ship transits through the Panama Canal were flat in September versus August, as the waterway continued to handle fewer vessels per day than available reservation slots. In the fiscal year that ran through the end of last month, transits fell by almost a third versus the prior year
The lessons of Panama Canal drought for future shipping routes
The 2023-2024 drought at the Panama Canal was historically severe and had major impacts on container, LPG, LNG and dry bulk shipping routes. Alexei Oduber, head of shipping agency GAC Panama, outlines the lessons learnt
Container lines poised to post highest quarterly profits since pandemic
Listed liner companies are set to report their best quarterly results in two years, courtesy of the ongoing Red Sea crisis and the pull-forward of cargo ahead of the US port strike. But 3Q24 will likely mark the peak of the current cycle, with lower results ahead
LNG shipping rates slump as winter floating storage prospects evaporate
Newbuildings are being delivered prior to the start of projects they were ordered against, and more importantly, demand for winter floating storage is absent. The outlook for both spot and period charter rates is poor
Strong September for US imports; no strike effect expected in October
Imports remained elevated in September and are set to remain high in October. The National Retail Federation projects full-year 2024 will boast the third-highest import volume on record, surpassed only by 2021 and 2022 during the pandemic
Crude tanker rates rise as Middle East tensions reach ‘fever pitch’
The Israel-Iran conflict and normal seasonality are boosting crude tanker rates across the board. The question ahead: How much higher could spot rates go if the geopolitical crisis in the Middle East escalates?