The Red Sea crisis is continuing to impact global schedule reliability which dropped by -5.1 percentage points month-on-month (m-o-m) in January – the same m-o-m drop as December 2023 – to 51.6%.
That’s according to the latest Global Liner Performance report released by maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence, which points out that the January 2024 score was the lowest since September 2022.
On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, January this year was -0.8 percentage points lower than January last year. Due to the round-Africa sailings, the average delay for late vessel arrivals deteriorated further, increasing by 0.59 days m-o-m to 6.01 days.
CMA CGM was the most reliable top-13 carrier in January, scoring 54.7%, followed by four more carriers that were above the 50% mark.
“Because of the current Red Sea crisis, and due to significant delays on the round-Africa sailings, none of the top-13 carriers were able to record a m-o-m improvement, with only seven carriers recording a y-o-y improvement in January 2024,” says CEO Alan Murphy.
