GLOBAL liner schedule reliability saw a month-on-month decline of 3.8% in January to 52.6% after steady increases throughout much of 2022, according to the latest report from analyst Sea-Intelligence.
Despite this decrease, schedule reliability in January 2023 was considerably higher than in the previous two years, with the year-on-year increase at 22.2%.
“The average delay for late vessel arrivals on the other hand continued to improve, as it has for much for 2022, with the latest figure at 5.26 days, a month-on-month drop of 0.24 days,” Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy said.
“Maersk was the most reliable top-14 carrier in January 2023 with 58.3%, followed by MSC with 57.7%.”
Mr Murphy said there were three more carriers with schedule reliability of more than 50%.
“The remaining carriers all had schedule reliability of 40%-50%. Zim was the least reliable carrier in January 2023 with schedule reliability of 41.0%,” he said.
“All top-14 carriers recorded a month-on-month decline in schedule reliability in January 2023, with Hapag-Lloyd recording the smallest decline of a marginal -0.4 percentage points.
“Wan Hai was the only carrier with a double-digit decline of -15.4 percentage points. All carriers except for Hamburg Süd recorded double-digit year-on-year improvements in schedule reliability in January 2023.”
