Sea-Intelligence analyzes schedule reliability figures up to and including September 2022, saying that global schedule reliability declined by 0.7% month on month (M/M) in September 2022 and reached 45.5%.
The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals has been dropping consistently since the start of the year. In September 2022, average delay improved once again, dropping by another -0.10 days M/M to 5.81 days.
This is the second consecutive month that the average delay figure has dropped below the 6-day mark since April 2021.
With schedule reliability of 53.2%, Maersk was the most reliable carrier in September 2022, followed by CMA CGM with 45.5%. Another 4 carriers recorded schedule reliability of 40%-50%, whereas the rest all had schedule reliability of 30%-40%.
Yang Ming recorded the lowest schedule reliability of 35.1%. In September 2022, once again, most of the carriers were very close to each other, with the difference between Yang Ming at the bottom and CMA CGM at second, a little over 10 percentage points.
Only 5 of the top-14 carriers recorded a M/M improvement, whereas all 14 recorded a year on year improvement, with 10 of those carriers recording double-digit improvements, and 2 carriers recording improvements of over 20 percentage points.