The data was published in issue 125 of Sea-Intelligence’s Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including December 2021.
According to the figures, schedule reliability dropped again, this time by 1.2 percentage points month-on-month to 32.0%; the lowest ever global schedule reliability since Sea-Intelligence started the measurement in 2011.
On a year-on-year level, schedule reliability was 12.5% points lower.
Despite the low schedule reliability in 2021, there hasn’t been much fluctuation, with the global scores hovering between 32%-40% for the most part.
The average delay for late vessel arrivals increased to 7.33 days; the fifth consecutive month with the delay figure above 7 days.
Maersk was once again the most reliable top-14 carrier in December 2021, with schedule reliability of 46.2%, followed by Hamburg Süd with 41.4%.
Only MSC had schedule reliability between 30%-40%, with six carriers recording schedule reliability of 20%-30%.
The remaining five carriers had schedule reliability of under 20%, with Evergreen recording the lowest December 2021 schedule reliability figure of 14.3%.
Nine 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 four carriers recording double-digit year-on-year declines.