Sea-Intelligence published schedule reliability figures up to and including July 2022. Global schedule reliability continues to trend upwards, increasing by 0.5% month on month (M/M) in July 2022 to 40.5%.
According to Sea-Intelligence, this is now the second time since the start of the pandemic that schedule reliability improved year on year (Y/Y).
“The average delay for LATE vessel arrivals have been dropping sharply so far this year, tapering off a little in the past few months,” says Alan Murphy, CEO, Sea-Intelligence.
In July 2022, average delay improved by -0.09 days M/M, which means that the delay figure is now firmly below the 7-day mark, and an improvement over the respective 2021 figure.
With schedule reliability of 48.0%, Maersk was the most reliable carrier in July 2022, followed by Evergreen with 44.3%. CMA CGM also recorded schedule reliability of over 40%. There were also 9 carriers with schedule reliability of 30%-40% and only two with schedule reliability of 20%-30%.
In July 2022, a lot of the carriers were very close to each other in terms of schedule reliability, with 10 carriers within 10 percentage points of each other. ZIM had the lowest schedule reliability in July 2022 of 26.6%.
On a Y/Y level, 11 of the top-14 carriers recorded an improvement in schedule reliability in July 2022, with 7 carriers recording double-digit improvements.
