Sea-Intelligence informed that global schedule reliability continues to trend upwards, recording the largest month to month (M/M) increase in 2022 of 5.8%, and reaching 46.2% in August.
The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals has been dropping sharply so far this year, tapering off a little in the past few months. In August 2022, average delay improved sharply once again, dropping by -0.57 days M/M to 5.86 days.
This is now the first time that average delay has dropped below the 6-day mark since April 2021.
With schedule reliability of 53.0%, Maersk was the most reliable carrier in August 2022, followed by CMA CGM with 46.0%. Another 6 carriers recorded schedule reliability of over 40%, 5 recorded schedule reliability of 30%-40%, while Yang Ming recorded the lowest schedule reliability of 29.8%.
In August 2022, once again, a lot of the carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability, with 10 carriers within 7% of each other.
12 of the top-14 carriers recorded a M/M improvement, while all 14 recorded a year on year improvement, with 11 of those carriers recording double-digit improvements, and 3 recording improvements of over 20%.
