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
APM Terminals acquires Panama Canal Railway
During the drought that enforced serious restrictions on the canal for much of 2023-2024, the railway played a vital role in the so-called land bridge between the Pacific and Atlantic hubs
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
Owners installing more scrubbers despite months of weak fuel spreads
The buoyant newbuilding market has equated to even more scrubber installations, but there is also a surprisingly high number of retrofits planned, even as fuel spreads languish at low levels
Mixed signals on transpacific: Spot rates still rising but bookings momentum stalls
Shipping lines have placed a big bet that US importers will accelerate shipments amid the tariff reprieve. The risk — given that tariffs are still exceptionally high — is that US demand could fall short of added capacity
Record number of LR2s trading dirty, yet product tanker rates still tepid
Geopolitical events are causing ongoing distortions in product tanker trades — the historic shift of LR2s from clean to dirty trades being a case in point. But this hasn’t translated into strong spot rates, disappointing stock investors