In March 2025, global schedule reliability surged to 57.5 per cent, the highest level recorded since November 2023.
This marks a significant improvement of 3 percentage points month-over-month and reflects a 3 percentage point increase compared to the same time last year.
Figures come from Sea-Intelligence‘s latest issue of the Global Liner Performance (GLP) report, with schedule reliability figures up to and including March 2025.
Among the top 13 carriers, Maersk was the most reliable, achieving a score of 66.9 per cent, followed by Hapag-Lloyd at 64.3 per cent and MSC at 61.9 per cent.
READ: Schedule reliability remains steady as Maersk tops charts
March 2025 also saw the introduction of new alliance services, with the first vessel arrivals on a trade lane basis. In contrast, February 2025 only recorded arrivals in the origin regions of East/West trades.
To allow for accurate comparison, Sea-Intelligence introduced two new metrics for the new alliances: “ALL arrivals” and “TRADE arrivals.”
While ALL arrivals include both origin and destination calls, TRADE arrivals are aligned with the older alliances, focusing on destination calls. As the new alliances are fully implemented by July 2025, these two metrics will merge.
READ: 2M ranked most reliable shipping alliance over seven years
Gemini led with the highest reliability of 90.3 per cent for ALL arrivals and 85.7 per cent for TRADE arrivals.
MSC followed with 75.8 per cent for ALL arrivals and 74.4 per cent for TRADE arrivals, while Premier Alliance trailed with scores of 53.2 per cent and 51.2 per cent, respectively.
Among the traditional alliances, Ocean Alliance scored 54.9 per cent, while 2M and THE alliances recorded scores of 43.1 per cent and 46.5 per cent, respectively.
Sea-Intelligence emphasised that the full rollout of the new alliances in July 2025 will be pivotal for accurately assessing their long-term performance.
