The rapid increase in schedule reliability evidenced in the second half of 2022 has abated somewhat, with the month-on-month (m-o-m) increase in December last year a marginal 0.1 percentage points to 56.6%.
On a year-on-year level, however, reliability was up by 24.8 percentage points.
That’s according to the latest Global Liner Performance report, published by maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence.
“The average delay for late vessel arrivals had been dropping consistently since the turn of the year. In December 2022, however, average delay increased slightly, by 0.34 days m-o-m, and reached 5.43 days,” said CEO Alan Murphy.
MSC once again led the pack in December (63.3%), ahead of Maersk (60.0%) which it unseated in November from its long-held top spot.
