SCHEDULE reliability worldwide showed a small month-on-month decline in November, according to analyst Sea-Intelligence’s recent Global Liner Performance report.
Global liner schedule reliability declined month-on-month in November by 0.6% to 33.6%, which maintains the range of 33-40% seen throughout the year.
“The only continuing ‘positive’, if one should call it that, is that schedule reliability has not plummeted further,” Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy said.
According to the report, on a year-on-year level, schedule reliability in November 2021 was down by 16.4 percentage points.
“The average delay for late vessel arrivals on the other hand, dropped down to 6.93 days, albeit still the highest figure for this month, which has been a recurring theme in 2021,” Mr Murphy said.
“Maersk was once again the most reliable top-14 carrier in November 2021, with schedule reliability of 46.3%, followed by Hamburg Süd with 40.4%. Only MSC had schedule reliability between 30%-40%, with five carriers recording schedule reliability of 20%-30%.”
Mr Murphy said the remaining six carriers had schedule reliability of under 20%, with Evergreen recording the lowest November 2021 schedule reliability of just 11.8%. Four carriers recorded a month-on-month improvement in schedule reliability, while no carrier recorded a year-on-year improvement in schedule reliability, with all but Maersk recording double-digit year-on-year declines.
