Technical hitch causes carrier reliability glitch

A technical error by Drewry Shipping Consultants resulted in incorrect information on carrier reliability being published in February this year. "Maersk Line never left the number one position in Q4-2012, remaining the most reliable major carrier for the twelfth time in 13 quarters," a spokesman said. Drewry has now published its Carrier Performance Insight report for the first quarter. The shipping consultants have “become aware of a technical error relating to ship reliability results dating back to the third quarter of 2011,” the spokesman said. "The change means that contrary to what was published in February 2013 by Drewry, Maersk Line remains “the most reliable major carrier for the twelfth time in 13 quarters (among carriers with a minimum of 100 voyage counts in a quarter). The Danish mega-carrier achieved an all-trades on-time average of 89.1% in the first quarter, down fractionally on its revised score of 89.3% in the fourth quarter.”