Sea-Intelligence has published issue 177 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including April 2026.
In April 2026, global industry schedule reliability increased by 0.4 percentage points M/M to 62.4%, making this the highest figure for 2026 so far. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was higher by 4.0 percentage points. With improving schedule reliability, the average delay for LATE vessel arrivals also improved, decreasing M/M by -0.27 days to 5.34 days. Despite this, on a Y/Y level, the April 2026 figure was 0.31 days higher.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in April 2026 with schedule reliability of 76.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 75.1%. Five carriers each were in the 60-70% and 50-60% ranges, while Wan Hai was the least reliable carrier in April 2026 with schedule reliability of 39.6%. Five carriers recorded an M/M improvement in schedule reliability in April 2026, while 11 of the 13 carriers recorded a Y/Y improvement.
In March/April 2026, Gemini Cooperation recorded 85.0% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals and 85.6% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 73.4% for ALL arrivals and 72.3% for TRADE arrivals. Premier Alliance recorded 54.2% for ALL arrivals and 54.2% across TRADE arrivals as well. For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” remain equal to “TRADE arrivals,” and Ocean Alliance scored 67.6%.
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. We continue to present both measures, “All arrivals” which is comparable to the February measure, and “Trade arrivals”, which is comparable to the “old” alliances.
