Sea-Intelligence has published issue 169 of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including August 2025.
In August 2025, global industry schedule reliability recorded a marginal M/M improvement of 0.1 percentage points to 65.3%, the second-highest figure for the month (across 2019-2025). On a Y/Y level, schedule reliability in August 2025 was up 12.7 percentage points. The average delay for late vessel arrivals increased M/M by 0.07 days to 4.80 days.
Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier with schedule reliability of 76.4%, followed by Hapag-Lloyd with 72.4%. The next 6 carriers were in the 60%-70% range, with the remaining carriers in the 50%-60% range. Wan Hai had the lowest August 2025 reliability of 53.3%.
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. 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. When the new alliances are fully rolled out, these two measures will converge.
In July/August 2025, Gemini Cooperation recorded 89.9% schedule reliability across ALL arrivals, and 86.9% across TRADE arrivals, followed by MSC at 79.0% for ALL arrivals and 80.2% for TRADE arrivals, while Premier Alliance recorded 55.4% for ALL arrivals and 56.0% across TRADE Arrivals. For the “old” alliances, “ALL arrivals” are equal to “TRADE arrivals”, and Ocean Alliance scored 66.9%.
