Danish maritime data analytics company, Sea-Intelligence has published a new Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including August 2022.
Global schedule reliability continues to trend upwards, recording the largest M/M increase in 2022 of 5.8 percentage points, and reaching 46.2% in August, according to the report that covers schedule reliability across 34 different trade lanes and 60+ carriers.
The Danish analysts have noticed that the average delay for late vessel arrivals has been dropping sharply so far this year, tapering off a little in the past few months.
In August 2022, the average delay improved sharply once again, dropping by -0.57 days M/M to 5.86 days. This is now the first time that the average delay has dropped below the six-day mark since April 2021.
With schedule reliability of 53%, Maersk was the most reliable carrier in August 2022, followed by CMA CGM with 46%. Another six carriers recorded schedule reliability of over 40%, five recorded schedule reliability of 30%-40%, while Yang Ming recorded the lowest schedule reliability of 29.8%.
In August 2022, once again, several carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability, with 10 carriers within 7 percentage points of each other. Additionally, 12 of the top-14 carriers recorded a M/M improvement, while all 14 recorded a Y/Y improvement, with 11 of those carriers recording double-digit improvements, and 3 recording improvements of over 20 percentage points.
