Shipping schedules may not be as reliable as you’d like them to be – but they certainly are consistent.
That’s the finding of the latest Sea-Intelligence Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, which measures schedule reliability up to and including May.
In May reliability was down -0.2 percentage points month-on-month (m-o-m) to 38.8%. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) level, it was down a massive -36.0 percentage points.
And while there had been some improvement in late vessel arrivals since March, in May this increased slightly by 0.05 days to 5.86 days. “The level of delays in 2021 has been the highest across each month when compared to previous years,” says Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy.
Maersk Line was the most reliable top-14 carrier in May, with schedule reliability of 46.2%. Three more carriers managed to top 40%, with six between 30%-40%, and four under 30%.
Evergreen recorded the lowest score at 25.1%, and six carriers recorded a m-o-m improvement, although the largest by MSC was of just 2.3 percentage points.
The largest m-o-m decrease was -14.4 percentage points recorded by Wan Hai, the only carrier to record a double-digit decline. None of the top-14 carriers recorded a y-o-y improvement, with all recording double-digit declines of over -33.0 percentage points.
As the report is quite comprehensive and covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers, this information covers only the global highlights from the full report.
