Sea-Intelligence’s latest Global Liner Performance (GLP) report has revealed that schedule reliability remained consistent year-over-year (YoY) in January 2025 at 51.5 per cent.
Schedule reliability in the global shipping industry remained steady throughout 2024, consistently within the 50-55 per cent range.
However, on a monthly-over-month (MoM) basis, schedule reliability dropped by 2.1 percentage points, while the average delay for late vessel arrivals decreased by 0.001 days to 5.32 days.
The January 2025 figure YoY was 0.85 days lower.
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Maersk was the most reliable top-13 carrier in January 2025 with schedule reliability of 55 per cent, followed by another 6 carriers with schedule reliability over 50 per cent.
The remaining 6 top-13 carriers were within 46-50 per cent, with Yang Ming and OOCL at the bottom with 46.6 per cent.
In January 2025, the difference between the most and least reliable carriers dropped to under 8.5 percentage points – the smallest difference since March 2017 according to Sea-Intelligence.
Only four of the top 13 carriers recorded MoM improvements, with Wan Hai recording the largest increase of 3.7 percentage points.
Seven carriers recorded an improvement on a YoY level, with Maersk recording the biggest improvement of 10.9 percentage points.
Late last year, Sea-Intelligence revealed that vessel bunching increased considerably at ports and terminals following the pandemic, partially due to the Red Sea crisis.
