Throughout 2024, schedule reliability stayed largely within 50-55%, according to the latest Sea-Intelligence’s report. The new year has started in a similar manner, with schedule reliability continuing to remain within that range.
Incidentally, the January 2025 score of 51.5% is the same as in the first month of the previous year, while on a month-to-month level, schedule reliability dropped by 2.1 percentage points.
At the same time, the average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased by 0.01 days M/M to 5.32 days, which is the lowest delay figure since July 2024, and is lower than across all pandemic impacted years.
Additionally, on a year-to-year level, the January 2025 figure was 0.85 days lower, according to Sea-Intelligence.
Meanwhile, Danish ocean carrier Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in January with schedule reliability of 55%, followed by another six carriers with schedule reliability over 50%.
Sea-Intelligence noted the remaining six top-13 carriers were within 46-50%, with Yang Ming and OOCL at the bottom with 46.6%. In January, the difference between the most and least reliable carrier dropped to under 8.5 percentage points – the smallest difference since March 2017. Moreover, only four of the top-13 carriers recorded a M/M improvement, with Wan Hai recording the largest increase of 3.7 percentage points.
On a Y/Y level, seven box carriers recorded an improvement, with Maersk recording the largest improvement of 10.9 percentage points.
