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
Boxship chartering at crossroads, awaiting Trump policy fallout
Tariffs on China imposed by US President Donald Trump will reduce vessel demand, a negative for containership charter rates. The Trump administration’s pending decision on US port fees will further distort the charter market
How Trump’s trade war could play out for crude tanker rates
Crude tankers are not directly impacted by the US-China trade war, but they are expected to face significant indirect consequences. Brokers and analysts cite both negative and positive scenarios, with sentiment favouring the negative
Transpacific poised for fall despite Trump reprieve on Chinese tech
The stock market cheered Donald Trump’s decision to temporarily lower tariffs on Chinese smartphones, laptops and other electronics. But this does not move the needle for transpacific ocean shipping demand, which is still pointing downward
‘Buckle up. This is going to get really bumpy,’ warns LA port boss
There is a lag between the tariff effect on loadings in China and imports at US ports. Containerships will arrive full for the next few weeks as the final cargoes shipped before the tariff deadline make their way across the Pacific. Then the import numbers will sink
Hopes rise that draconian US port fee plan will be watered down
Decisions on tariffs come right from the top — from the president himself. In contrast, the US port fee review process is following the normal regulatory course, with the administration appearing to take business feedback into account
Trump capitulates on non-Chinese tariffs, adding to shipping uncertainty
World trade is being redirected at a moment’s notice by social media posts of a single person: Donald Trump. Wednesday’s surprise social media post was a bad sign for the future of US-China trade but positive for container flows from other countries