Schedule reliability – the latest winners and losers

Global schedule reliability continued to stay within 50 to 55% in June, Sea-Intelligence (SI) reports.

In the maritime trade consultancy’s latest Global Liner Performance report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including June, schedule reliability dropped by -1.2 percentage points month-on-month (m-o-m) to 54.4% overall.

This is in line with the trends seen so far this year, where global schedule reliability has largely been between 50 to 55%, SI says.

On a year-on-year (y-o-y) level, however, schedule reliability in June was -9.8 percentage points lower.

The average delay for late vessel arrivals also deteriorated, increasing by 0.04 days m-o-m to 5.19 days.

This is the third-highest figure for the month, only surpassed by the pandemic highs of 2021/2022. On a y-o-y level, the June figure was 0.82 days higher.

Hapag-Lloyd was the most reliable top-13 carrier in June with schedule reliability of 55.4%.

There were another nine carriers above the 50% mark, with the remaining three carriers in the 40 to 50% range.

ZIM was the least reliable carrier with schedule reliability of 44.4%.

Of the top-13 carriers, seven recorded a m-o-m improvement in schedule reliability, with Yang Ming showing the highest improvement of 6.1%.

ZIM recorded the largest m-o-m decline of -3.3 percentage points.

On a y-o-y level, only HMM and Yang Ming recorded an increase in schedule reliability, while MSC recorded the largest y-o-y decline of -18.5%.