The numbers are in, and it’s not a pretty picture.
The latest Global Liner Performance (GLP) report published by maritime consultancy Sea-Intelligence, with schedule reliability figures up to and including December 2021, reveals that reliability dropped by -1.2 percentage points month-on-month to 32.0% in December, the lowest-ever global schedule reliability since the consultancy started the measurement in 2011.
On a year-on-year level, reliability was -12.5 percentage points lower. “But despite the low reliability in 2021, there hasn’t been much fluctuation, with the global scores hovering between 32%-40% for the most part,” says Sea-Intelligence CEO Alan Murphy.
The average delay for late vessel arrivals increased to 7.33 days, the fifth consecutive month with the delay figure above seven days.
Maersk was once again the most reliable carrier in the top 14 in December (46.2%), followed by Hamburg Süd (41.4%).
MSC was the only carrier scoring 30%-40%, six were in the 20%-30% range, while the remaining five scored below 20%. Evergreen was rock bottom with 14.3%.
As the report itself is quite comprehensive, these figures only reflect the global highlights from the full report.
