Sea-Intelligence: Global schedule reliability improves to 64.1% in November 2025

Sea-Intelligence has published issue 172 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including November 2025.

In November 2025, global industry schedule reliability improved M/M by 2.8 percentage points to 64.1%, bringing it back in line with the levels seen between May and September. This is also the second-highest recorded figure for November. On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability was up 9.5 percentage points. The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals decreased M/M by -0.16 days to 4.88 days, making it the second-lowest figure for this month. On a Y/Y level, the November 2025 figure was -0.54 days lower.

Source: Sea-Intelligence.com,  GLP Report,  issue 172

Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in November 2025 with schedule reliability of 78.1%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 77.1%. The next three carriers were in the 60-70% range, while the remaining eight carriers were in the 50-60% range. ZIM was the least reliable carrier in November 2025 with schedule reliability of 52.8%.

In October/November 2025, Gemini Cooperation recorded 89.7% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals and 88.3% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 74.4% for ALL arrivals and 75.2% for TRADE arrivals. Premier Alliance recorded 55.7% for ALL arrivals and 55.0% across TRADE arrivals. For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” remain equal to “TRADE arrivals,” and Ocean Alliance scored 61.1%.

Source: Sea-Intelligence.com,  GLP Report,  issue 172

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, 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. When the new alliances are fully rolled out, these two measures will converge.