GLOBAL liner schedule reliability dropped to 33.6% in August according to the latest issue of the Global Liner Performance report, published by analyst Sea-Intelligence.
The reliability figure is the lowest in the 10 years the company has tracked global schedule reliability.
“On a year-on-year level, reliability in August 2021 was 30.1 percentage points lower than August 2020, continuing the trend of year-on-year declines of over 30.0 percentage points in each month in 2021 so far,” Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy said.
“The average delay for late vessel arrivals continued to deteriorate, increasing by 0.58 days month-on-month to 7.57 days in August.”
The report shows that Maersk Line was once again the most reliable top-14 carrier in August 2021, with schedule reliability of 45.6%, followed by Hamburg Süd with 38.0%.
“Another three carriers had schedule reliability between 30%-40%, with only three carriers recording schedule reliability of 20%-30%.” Mr Murphy said.
“Six carriers had schedule reliability of under 20%, with Evergreen recording the lowest August 2021 schedule reliability of just 11.5%.
“Only HMM recorded a month-on-month improvement in schedule reliability, of 1.6 percentage points, while no carrier recorded a year-on-year improvement, with the smallest year-on-year decline of 24.2 percentage points recorded by Maersk Line.”
