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
US retailers ‘extremely’ worried as US port strike deadline nears
With less than two weeks to go before the strike deadline at US east and Gulf coast ports, the two sides are still not back at the negotiating table. Jonathan Gold of the National Retail Federation outlines the looming threat to US businesses
US alleges ‘entirely avoidable’ Dali disaster was caused by negligence
The US government alleges that Dali’s transformer and circuit breakers were impacted by a previously known ‘heavy vibration’ problem, prior power outages were not reported as they should have been, and the bridge disaster would have been avoided if the transformer was not wrongly set to manual mode and two auxiliary engines were not wrongly fueled by flushing pumps
Biden warned by 177 US trade groups on ‘devastating’ port strike risk
There are just two weeks to go before a major US port strike, and the two sides are not even at the negotiating table. A coalition of 177 US trade associations urged the Biden administration to help, but the ILA opposes federal involvement
LNG shipping rates are falling when they should be seasonally rising
LNG carrier spot rates are down double digits month on month, to just a fraction of last year’s levels. Period charter rates are also down double digits year on year. The seasonal upswing is coming, but some believe it may be muted this winter
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