GLOBAL schedule reliability of ocean carriers decline 3.8 percentage points to 52.6 per cent.

The latest issue of the Sea-Intelligence Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, which covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and more than sixty carriers, showed that despite this decrease, schedule reliability in the first month of 2023 was considerably higher than in the previous two years, with the year-on-year increase at 22.2 percentage points.

"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," said Alan Murphy, CEO, Sea-Intelligence .

With schedule reliability of 52.6 per cent, Maersk was the most reliable top-14 carrier in January 2023 with 58.3 per cent, followed by MSC with 57.7 per cent.

There were more carriers with schedule reliability of over 50 per cent. The remaining carriers all had schedule reliability of 40 per cent-50 per cent. ZIM was the least reliable carrier in January 2023 with schedule reliability of 41.0 per cent.

"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 Sud recorded double-digit year-on-year improvements in schedule reliability in January 2023," Mr Murphy said.