Containership reliability slipped backwards in October as the average on-time performance across all trades reached 77.9%, according to Drewry Supply Chain Advisors – with Asia-Africa by far the worst performer.
The latest result was based on reliability across 10 deep-sea container trades, instead of the three East-West trades as was previously measured up to and including September 2015, when the aggregate on-time result was 79.9%.
The on-time result for the East-West trades came in at 77.3% in October, while the first aggregate result for the seven North-South routes was slightly better at 79.1%.
In the East-West category, October saw the worst performances in the Transpacific, which declined by 3.5% against September to 75.1%, while in the Asia-Europe trade reliability dropped by 3.0 points to 78.2%. On the plus side, reliability on the Transatlantic rose by 12 points in October to a series-high of 84.0%.
The most punctual of the “North-South” trades in October was the Asia-South Asia route with an on-time performance of 87.8%.
The tardiest was the Asia-Africa route that saw only 68.4% of voyages arrive as scheduled.
