Sea-Intelligence has published issue 175 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including February 2026.
In February 2026, global industry schedule reliability dropped by -3.2 percentage points M/M to 59.0%, making this the lowest figure recorded since April 2025. On a Y/Y level though, schedule reliability was higher by 5.0 percentage points. With declining schedule reliability, the average delay for LATE vessel arrivals also deteriorated, increasing M/M by 0.16 days to 5.49 days. This is the highest figure since February 2025. Despite this, on a Y/Y level, the February 2026 figure was -0.04 days lower.
Hapag-Lloyd was the most reliable top-13 carrier in February 2026 with schedule reliability of 67.4%, with five more carriers in the 60-70% range, six in the 60-70% range, and Wan Hai the least reliable carrier with schedule reliability of 47.9%. Only three carriers recorded an M/M improvement, while twelve carriers recorded a Y/Y improvement.
In January/February 2026, Gemini Cooperation recorded 79.1% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals and 80.2% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 63.7% for ALL arrivals and 60.9% for TRADE arrivals. Premier Alliance recorded 58.4% for ALL arrivals and 56.6% across TRADE arrivals. For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” remain equal to “TRADE arrivals,” and Ocean Alliance scored 68.9%.
Traditionally, alliance scores are based on just the arrivals in destination regions, but as that metric was not available for the new alliances in February 2025, we introduced a new measure, based on all arrivals, including the origin region calls on the East/West trades. Sea-Intelligence continues to present both measures, “All arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure, and “Trade arrivals”, which is comparable to the “old” alliances.
