Global schedule reliability improved on a monthly basis by 1.7% to 58.7% in April, heralding the highest level recorded since November 2023.
Shipping research platform Sea-Intelligence reports that on a year-on-year basis, the April score was higher by 6.5%.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in April 2025 with schedule reliability of 73.4%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd at 72.3%.
The confirmed scheduled reliability comes as a boon to the two lines who have had a vessel-sharing arrangement (VSA), The Gemini Cooperation, since February.
Sea Intelligence recorded MSC’s April schedule reliability as 60.7%.
After the first quarter, Sea Intelligence also scored Gemini’s schedule reliability as the highest.
The platform pointed out that alliance scores were based on arrivals in destination regions.
But that metric was not available for the new alliance in February as the newly launched alliance services only had origin arrivals in February.
As a result, a new measure for new alliances was launched in February, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on alliance services according to Sea Intelligence’s standard methodology.
All arrivals include both origin and destination calls and were comparable to the February 2025 score, said Sea Intelligence.
Trade arrivals, which are comparable to old alliances, only include destination calls.
Once new alliances are fully rolled out, all measurements will converge.
In March/April 2025, Gemini Cooperation recorded 90.7% schedule reliability across all arrivals and 87% across trade arrivals, followed by MSC at 69.8% for all arrivals and 77.3% for trade arrivals, the update added.
Premier Alliance, consisting of Ocean Network Express, Hyundai Merchant Marine and Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation, recorded 53% for all arrivals and 51.3% across trade arrivals.
Since leaving the 2M alliance with Maersk in February, MSC has announced that it will enter into a VSA with the Premier Alliance, cooperating on nine Asia-Europe and Mediterranean trade routes.
For all outgoing alliances, all arrivals are equal to trade arrivals, and Ocean Alliance, consisting of CMA CG, Cosco, OOCL and Evergreen, scored 51.1%.
THE Alliance – Hapag-Lloyd, ONE, Yang Ming, Mitsui OSK, Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Hyundai Merchant Marine – which Hapag-Lloyd left to join Maersk at Gemini, scored 49.8%.
2M scored 33.5%.
It was important to stress that the new alliances would only be fully rolled out in July, and only then would it be possible to truly evaluate their performance, Sea Intelligence said. SOURCE: Stat Media Group.
